Chess is the art of analysis.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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