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

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

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.

Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)

During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.