A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

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

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

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

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

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.