In Kansas I Have A Chess School.

Playing Black, I Put Great Stake In The Ruy Lopez: I Liked It, Feel It, And Understand It; In Matches With Hjartarson And Timman It Served Me Well. - On Preparing For World Championship Versus Garry Kasparov

By All Means Examine The Games Of The Great Chess Players, But Don't Swallow Them Whole. Their Games Are Valuable Not For Their Separate Moves, But For Their Vision Of Chess, Their Way Of Thinking.

Furman Astounded Me With His Chess Depth, A Depth Which He Revealed Easily And Naturally, As If All He Were Doing Was Establishing Well-known Truths.

Style? I Have No Style.

I Didn't Picture Myself As Even A Grandmaster, To Say Nothing Of Aspiring To The Chess Crown. This Was Not Because I Was Timid - I Wasn't - But Because I Simply Lived In One World, And The Grandmasters Existed In A Completely Different One. People Like That Were Not Really Even People, But Like Gods Or Mythical Heroes.