I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

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'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.