Planning anything is hopeless.

You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

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!'

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.

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

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