It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.