Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.

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

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.