Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner. — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'. — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are,… — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's… — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master. — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead?… — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
