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

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

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