The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

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

In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.