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

Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.

By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!

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

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

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'.

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