Good players actually use their long-term memory much more than inexperienced players, who use their short-term memory. Good players try to recall patterns.
Magnus Carlsen 2016 2016
It’s always more difficult to hold the title than to get it.
Vladimir Akopian 2012
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw.
Judith Polgar FT, 2014
When you see a good move, look for a better one
Emanuel Lasker
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
