A Passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes

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 middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame

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

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player

A good player is always lucky