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!

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!

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.

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong

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.

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