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

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

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.

Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.

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.

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

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'