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

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.

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

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

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.

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)

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.