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

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

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

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.

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

To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.