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.

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.

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

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

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game