Chess is imagination.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

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

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

Chess is imagination.

Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.

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