Chess is not for timid souls.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

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

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

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 have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings