I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

I was never invited to the White House.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

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.

Tactics flow from a superior position