The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight….

It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that….

The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some ….

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess..

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game….

... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited..

We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does ….

To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateu….

A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster..

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp..

Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has r….

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan.

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc..

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis..

Haste, the great enemy..

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory..

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing ….

It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the com….