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

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

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

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.

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

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