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During A Chess Tournament A Master Must Envisage Himself As A Cross Between An Ascetic Monk And A Beast Of Prey.

A Lifetime In Not Enough To Learn Everything About Chess.

As A Rule, So-called "positional" Sacrifices Are Considered More Difficult, And Therefore More Praise-worthy, Than Those Which Are Based Exclusively On An Exact Calculation Of Tactical Possibilities.

Capablanca Was Snatched Too Early From The Chess World. With His Death We Have Lost A Great Chess Genius, The Like Of Whom We Will Never See Again.

That Which Steinitz Gave To The Theoretical Aspect Of The Game When He Was At His Best Is Very Remote To All Out Home-bred Chess Philosophers, But With His Views On Morphy, Whom He Tries To Discredit Completely, It Is Of Course Impossible To Agree.