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

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

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

As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.

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