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Attack! Always Attack!
Haste, the great enemy.
How can I lose to such an idiot?
Be a harsh critic of your own wins.
The threat is stronger than the execution.
What would Chess be without silly mistakes?
First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.
No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.
A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.
The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn
When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration
Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.
All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.
The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.
Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!
In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game
After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes
The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.
Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.
It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.
The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces.
Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.
Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified
Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership
After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game
Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.
Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.
Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.
The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.
For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.
Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.
The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.