I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

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

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

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

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