There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

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

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

Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.

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 great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

A good player is always lucky.