If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

In my view it’s the brain that makes the patterns on the basis of experience, so all the grandmaster does is expose himself to chess information and lets the brain rack it up in its own mysterious way.

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.

From my close contact with artists and chess players I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Without mathematics we might as well live in a cave.