The Ideal In Chess Can Only Be

I Lost The Match. I Blame Only Myself For This. There Were Many Opportunities To Win. But I Missed Them, No One Else.

I Didn't Picture Myself As Even A Grandmaster, To Say Nothing Of Aspiring To The Chess Crown. This Was Not Because I Was Timid - I Wasn't - But Because I Simply Lived In One World, And The Grandmasters Existed In A Completely Different One. People Like That Were Not Really Even People, But Like Gods Or Mythical Heroes.

Chess Is Everything: Art, Science, And Sport.

By All Means Examine The Games Of The Great Chess Players, But Don't Swallow Them Whole. Their Games Are Valuable Not For Their Separate Moves, But For Their Vision Of Chess, Their Way Of Thinking.

The First Great Chess Players, Including The World Champion, Got By Perfectly Well Without Constant Coaches.