An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

A game is always won through a mistake.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game