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

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.

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

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.