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

When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.

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

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

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.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.