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

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.

I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it