Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

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

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?

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.