But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

If you have seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all.