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

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

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

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

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.

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

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.