When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.