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

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Tactics flow from a superior position

When I was eleven, I just got good.

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.

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.