An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.

The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

Without error, there is no brilliancy.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.