Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me.

You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.

Planning anything is hopeless.

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.