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

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

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

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.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

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

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.