If I Win A Tournament, I Win

Concentrate On Material Gains. Whatever Your Opponent Gives You Take, Unless You See A Good Reason Not To.

Genius. It's A Word. What Does It Really Mean? If I Win I'm A Genius. If I Don't, I'm Not.

Well, I Kind Of Split My Life Into Two Pieces. One Was Where My Chess Career Lies. There, I Kept My Sanity, So To Speak, And My Logic. And The Other Was My Religious Life. I Tried To Apply What I Learned In The Church To My Chess Career Too. But I Still Was Studying Chess. I Wasn't Just "trusting In God" To Give Me The Moves.

When I Used To Go To The Manhattan Chess Club Back In The Fifties, I Met A Lot Of Old-timers There Who Knew Capablanca, Because He Used To Come Around To The Manhattan Club In The Forties - Before He Died In The Early Forties. They Spoke About Capablanca With Awe. I Have Never Seen People Speak About Any Chess Player Like That, Before Or Since.

Fide Has Decided Against My Participation In The 1975 World Chess Champion Title.