I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

Patzer sees a check, gives a check.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

The Russians have fixed world chess.

I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.