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!

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

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

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

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

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

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.