Robert James Fischer

"Perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived, he would beat anybody today in a set-match. He had complete sight of the board and s...

"His games are completely modern, but very few of them show brilliancies. He understood all the positional concepts we now hold so dea...

"He always sought completely original lines and didn't mind getting into cramped quarters if he thought that his position was ess...

"Razor-sharp, he always followed his own rules. In spite of devotion to his own supposedly scientific method, his play was often witty...

"The first great Russian player and one of the last of the Romantic School. At times he would continue playing a bad line even after i...

"Never a hero of mine. His style worked for him, but it could scarcely work for anybody else. His conceptions were gigantic, full of o...

"He had the totally undeserved reputation of being the greatest living endgame player. His trick was to keep his openings simple and t...

"He can blunder away a piece, and you are never sure whether it's a blunder or a fantastically deep sacrifice. He sits at the boa...

"Even after losing four games in a row to him I still consider his play unsound. He is always on the lookout for some spectacular sac...

"From 1946 to 1956 probably the best in the world, though his opening knowledge was less than any other leading player. Like a mach...

Morphy:   "A popularly held theory about Paul Morphy is that if he returned to the chess world today and played our best c...