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

Playing in your home city is very special. You feel the support and attention. When everything goes well, it's very great, but when it doesn't, you might as well turn off your phone: the advices seem endless.

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

Chess isn't football or hockey.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

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