Chess is not only knowledge and logic

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.