I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.