Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!