A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.

I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!