CHESS MONTHLY

British monthly magazine published by Cox and edited by Hoffer and Zukertort which ran from 1879 to 1896. The American Chess Monthly ran from 1857 to 1861 was edited by Daniel Willard Fiske. Morphy acted as games editor from 1858 until 1861.

School is a waste of time for me. I want to be world chess champion, and they can’t teach me anything there. Robert Fischer
1961
A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose. Savielly Tartakower
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere. David Bronstein
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. Savielly Tartakower

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