It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.

The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.