A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.
He who analyses blitz is stupid.
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
I like to make them squirm.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!
In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder
For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable
I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.
The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.