In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Chess is like war on a board