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No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write ...
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.
I would rather die in America than live in England. I would rather lose a match in America than win one in England. I have come to the conclusion that I neither mean to die soon or to lose the match!
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
The King is a fighting piece. Use it!
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.
I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
Chess is not for timid souls.
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
