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

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

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

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.

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

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.