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.

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.

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.

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

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.