To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer