A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

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

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.

A good player is always lucky.

The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.