I Give 98 Percent Of My Mental

It Is Time To Finish Off The U.s. Once And For All.

I Don't Recommend Trying To Cram A Lot Of Long Opening-move Variations Into Your Head. The Main Idea Behind Any Opening Is To Get A Strong Pawn Center And Give Your Pieces A Lot Of Scope So That You Cramp Your Opponent's Position And Can Attack Weaknesses In His Game.

It's The Fault Of The Chess Players Themselves. I Don't Know What They Used To Be, But Now They're Not The Most Gentlemanly Group. When It Was A Game Played By The Aristocrats It Had More Like You Know Dignity To It. When They Used To Have The Clubs, Like No Women Were Allowed And Everybody Went In Dressed In A Suit, A Tie, Like Gentlemen, You Know. Now, Kids Come Running In Their Sneakers. Even In The Best Chess Club-and They Got Women In There. It's A Social Place And People Are Making Noise, It's A Madhouse.

Capablanca Was Among The Greatest Of Chess Players, But Not Because Of His Endgame. His Trick Was To Keep His Openings Simple, And Then Play With Such Brilliance In The Middlegame That The Game Was Decided - Even Though His Ooponent Didn't Always Know It - Before They Arrived At The Ending.

I Prepare Myself Well. I Know What I Can Do Before I Go In. I'm Always Confident.