Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame..

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters..

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else..

People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of….

Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must r….

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win..

A good player is always lucky..

Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination tu….

Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just for….

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an ….

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such….

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes..

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker..

The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and ….

The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames….

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other..

Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and the accomplishment of a ….

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, ….

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game..

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess..