If you want to have knowledge of the mechanisms that lead to victory, you need to understand what the fight is about, what the defense is aimed at, and where the object of attack is. But this is not enough. You need burning, imagination, will, search, thirst to find a real solution in the competition with another personality. When all this is present, a chess genius appears.

The authors naturally love chess infinitely and believe that by the year 2000, or perhaps even earlier, chess will become more human and will acquire more and more of its good features every year, gradually losing everything else that is temporary, superficial, past, opportunistic, and alien to the ideals of humanism.