A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation…

- Lev Polugaevsky

In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

- Lev Polugaevsky

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

- Lev Polugaevsky

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

- Lev Polugaevsky

Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualiti…

- Lev Polugaevsky

First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repert…

- Lev Polugaevsky