A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

The threat is stronger than the execution.