Quotes from Alexander Kotov

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

Time trouble is blunder time.

If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.