Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.
Chess is the art of analysis.
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.
I only think well when my mind is calm.
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists