Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

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

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

I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.

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

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.