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

Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

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

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

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.