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.

On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too thin, too puny for such an end. Reti's explanations, wherever they are concerned with an analysis which covers a few moves, are correct and praiseworthy. But when he abandons the foundations of analysis in order to draw too bold, too general a conclusion, his arguments prove to be mistaken.

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

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

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

Without error there can be no brilliancy