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

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

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.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

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.

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

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