Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.

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

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

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

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.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack