Without error, there is no brilliancy.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too thin, too puny for such an end. Reti's explanations, wherever they are concerned with an analysis which covers a few moves, are correct and praiseworthy. But when he abandons the foundations of analysis in order to draw too bold, too general a conclusion, his arguments prove to be mistaken.

Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed