You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

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

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.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

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

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.