If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

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.

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

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

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

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)