Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“The purpose of studying opening theory should not be accumulating any set amount of knowledge, but being content with whatever knowledge one… — Paul Van der Sterren Copy Share Image
Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect. — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image