Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.

Haste, the great enemy.