The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.