I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

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.

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

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

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