Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.