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!

Every move creates a weakness.

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.

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

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.