The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.