24 Quotes by Viktor Korchnoi

I don't study; I create.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.