When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
In chess,honestly,nobody cares how beautiful you play,if Morphy would be 2710 today,he would not get a single invitation.
Teymur Rajabov 2017
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963.
Mikhail Botvinnik 1966
