Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.

Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.