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.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

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

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.

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

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

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