You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.