When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

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

Chess is imagination.