Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
