A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

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

It 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

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.

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.