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

Chess is, above all, a fight.

Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.

The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

Without error, there is no brilliancy.