Occupation: Chess Player Birth: November 9, 1936 Death: June 28, 1992
I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in s….
Planning anything is hopeless..
To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess..
I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind..
Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine.
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine.
I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that..
Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!.
It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all….
First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns..
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'.
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I tho….
As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger..
Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a….
It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer.
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique..
Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens..
Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices..
If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage..
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought process….
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.