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

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

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

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

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

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.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.