Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.
Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine
Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a science. It's been said that Alekhine and I played similar chess, except that he studied more. Yes, perhaps, but I have to say that he played, too.
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.
I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.
Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
Chess isn't football or hockey.
