Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.