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

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.

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

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

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