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

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

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!

Every move creates a weakness.

I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

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.

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