Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is 15 to 20 days in the fresh air, in the country.

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists