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

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

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

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

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.

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed