As Olafsson showed me, White can win… It’s hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different.
I don’t like to dwell on the past. I’m interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I’m trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
