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.

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.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

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

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

The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.