The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.