None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.
There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!
As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
