5 Quotes by Mark Dvoretsky

It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author’s conclusions.

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

I do not know to whom the aphorism ‘There are no sound studies, only ones that haven’t been busted yet’ belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.