Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.