I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.