Chess Demands Total Concentration

As Olafsson Showed Me, White Can Win... It's Hard To Believe. I Stayed Up All Night Analysing, Finally Convicing Myself, And, Incidentally, Learning A Lot About Rook And Pawn Endings In The Process.

I Like The Moment When I Break A Man's Ego.

Americans Really Don't Know Much About Chess. But I Think When I Beat Spassky, That Americans Will Take A Greater Interest In Chess. Americans Like Winners.

When I Used To Go To The Manhattan Chess Club Back In The Fifties, I Met A Lot Of Old-timers There Who Knew Capablanca, Because He Used To Come Around To The Manhattan Club In The Forties - Before He Died In The Early Forties. They Spoke About Capablanca With Awe. I Have Never Seen People Speak About Any Chess Player Like That, Before Or Since.

I Usually Never Stay At The Board After A Game. Especially Against Spassky. I Made A Dumb Suggestion And He Refuted It Instantly! I Know I'm Going To Have To Play Him Some Day And It Was Really Stupid To Look Like Such A Jerk In Front Of Him.