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

Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.

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

He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

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

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