In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. - Alexander Kotov
When you have finished analysing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it. - Alexander Kotov
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life. - Garry Kasparov
By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery. - Garry Kasparov
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
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. - Lev Polugaevsky
It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately. - Mark Dvoretsky
It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions. - Mark Dvoretsky
Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously. - Mark Dvoretsky
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing chess positions accurately. - Mikhail Botvinnik
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. - Mikhail Botvinnik
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own. - Mikhail Botvinnik
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality. - Mikhail Botvinnik
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. - Mikhail Botvinnik
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality. - Savielly Tartakower