If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

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

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!

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

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

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.