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.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

A good player is always lucky.

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

Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.

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

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