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

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

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

I look one move ahead... the best!

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.

Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.