Chess is imagination.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.