I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game!
David Janowski
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!
Robert Fischer September, 1 1992
When I play well, I don’t win!
Maxime Vachier Lagrave 2017
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower