I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.