The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

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.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

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

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

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.