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

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

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

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

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

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.

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.