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

Chess is imagination.

Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

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

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.

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

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.