Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.

Gluteal muscles are what makes chess a sport.

The ideal women are female chess players: they can remain silent for hours, keep well their figures and know many interesting positions.

These three causes distrust: a smoking doctor, a laughing priest and a combed chess player.

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.