A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game
I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.