Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned..

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers..

Chess is the art of analysis..

I only think well when my mind is calm..

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can p….

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it..

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly,….

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which wil….

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with pla….

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to o….

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctret….

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great pl….

If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him..

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop..

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theor….

If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more ….

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as ferti….

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately.

Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for suc….

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.