Without error there can be no brilliancy.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake..

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized..

The hardest game to win is a won game.

Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease ….

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated..

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if an….

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight..

He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding dif….

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminati….

By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produce….

Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a for….

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is….

You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a fe….

The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make t….

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human….

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened….

Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three tho….

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages..

He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after to….

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!.