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!'.
You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer.
It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan.
The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's….
I like the moment when I break a man's ego..
For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime..
Chess is life and every game is like a new life..
In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead.
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game.
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess..
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to be….
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance..
Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game..
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry….