White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

Every move creates a weakness.

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

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

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

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

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.