A game is always won through a mistake.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

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

Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.

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

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.