Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

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.

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.

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

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

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