William Ewart Napier Quotes

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."