Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated..

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan..

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!.

For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on….

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a….

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14….

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give..

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle..

I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combin….

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective..

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself..

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, techn….

Chess is a matter of vanity..

Combination is a soul of chess..

For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of ….

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexp….

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively ….

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes litt….

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey..

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess..

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents..