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Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what
Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

I only think well when my mind is calm.

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Chess is the art of analysis.

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.