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Chess First Of All Teaches You To Be Objective.

Young Players Expose Themselves To Grave Risks When They Blindly Imitate The Innovations Of Masters Without Themselves First Checking All The Details And Consequences Of These Innovations.

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

I Did Not Believe I Was Superior To Him. Perhaps The Chief Reason For His Defeat Was The Overestimation Of His Own Powers Arising Out Of His Overwhelming Victory In New York, 1927, And His Underestimation Of Mine.

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.