Assessment Quote by Emanuel Lasker

Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It…

— Reuben Fine

Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the…

— Fred Reinfeld

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

— Richard Reti

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

— Emanuel Lasker

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude…

— Alexander Kotov

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus…

— John Dickerson

A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people…

— Sheena Iyengar

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing…

— Bill Gaede

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

— Robert Schumann

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

— Jose Raul Capablanca