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

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.

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.

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

I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.

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