Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

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

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

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

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

Every move creates a weakness.