I do not think there is any other mental strain comparable to the exertion to which a tournament game subjects the chess master. Working at what seemed to me the most difficult mathematical problems has never exhausted me nearly as much as playing in a chess tournament; and of all intellectual applications mathematical work is surely the hardest. That is why physical fitness is a most important factor in tournament chess and why young players, whose brains can stand the poisons of fatigue much longer than those of older players have a great advantage.

Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing.

The source of the greatest errors is to be found in those moves that are made merely according to rule and not based on the individual plan or thought of the player.

The only real difficulties in programming are cache invalidation and naming things.

So Liza is Heidi and Matt is me and he’s dead and what for?