Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

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

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

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.

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.

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

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