They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

Tactics flow from a superior position

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.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.