Chess is not for timid souls.

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.

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

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

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.