Samuel Reshevsky Quotes
It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.
No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.
What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.