Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.

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

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

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

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 exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of them was Dr. Bernstein. I had the good fortune to play him in the first round., and beat him in such fashion as to obtain the Rothschild prize for the most brilliant game ... a profound feeling of respect for my ability remained throughout the rest of the contest.