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

People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.

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

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.

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

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

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