We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.

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

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.

A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

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.

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

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