The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.

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

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

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

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

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