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

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

Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

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

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.