If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
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 plans for the middle game.
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 will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.
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 play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.
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 conctrete variations.
The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.
Traveling wears me out.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking handsstrategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.