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.

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.

Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

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

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