Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a science. It's been said that Alekhine and I played similar chess, except that he studied more. Yes, perhaps, but I have to say that he played, too.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

Planning anything is hopeless.

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.

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