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.

If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

Chess is the art of analysis.

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.