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

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'.

The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

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.

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