You only task in the opening is to reach a playable middle game.
Lajos Portisch
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do.
Hans Ree
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.
Veselin Topalov 2016
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
When I see the Berlin defence, I am almost happy that I am not longer a top player!
Nigel Short 2016
