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

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

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

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.

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