Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments..

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves..

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game..

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game..

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gamb….

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality..

Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openin….

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending..

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once..

There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piec….

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct..

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is..

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the o….

In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn..

It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle….

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent..

But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th cen….

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most tho….

Chess is imagination..

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, alon….

A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later me….