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 game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.

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

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

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

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.

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.