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

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

It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.

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

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.

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