Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.

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.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

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

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.

To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.

There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick