William Ewart Napier Inspirational Quotes (4)

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: Same as his health, he replied, always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well.

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.