Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to….

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists..

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only..

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking..

You must not let your opponent know how you feel..

In choosing an opening plan players think most of all of harmonious development for the pieces, but sometimes leave the development of the queen out ….

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players hav….

Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim ….

After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a ….

There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause o….

If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up ….

Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of su….

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess..

Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get….

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practic….

In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop with….

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about a….

You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of decicive….

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent res….

If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certai….