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

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

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.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists