We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.
Richard RetiThose chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'
Richard RetiIt is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position
Richard RetiThe scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
Richard Reti