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!

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

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

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

Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head

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?

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.