If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

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