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.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

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

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

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.

Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.

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.