Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game..

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone ….

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game..

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

Chess is not for timid souls..

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth..

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as we….

I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion tha….

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game.

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research..

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns..

I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after f….

I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics..

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, othe….

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth..

No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I play….

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is….

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.