In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

Chess is a beautiful mistress.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

I often play a move I know how to refute.

I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

Do you know that I no longer see colors?"Jonas's heart broke.

The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.