I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

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

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.

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

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

Chess is the art of analysis.