Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

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

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

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

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.

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

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.