It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

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

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

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

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.