People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game.
When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
A good player is always lucky.
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.
In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else.
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.