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

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

I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

Chess isn't football or hockey.

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.

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