First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

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.

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

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

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

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

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