Chess Tip Of The Day

A lead in development (in return for a material sacrifice) offers dangerous but temporary compensation. Jonathan Tisdall, Improve Your Chess Now

If your pieces get tied down to defending pawns, your enemy can switch his attack to a different part of the board and you will not be able to react in time. Shaun Taulbut, Positional Chess

One must strive for a good position, not for an advantage in material! Siegbert Tarrasch, The Game Of Chess

In a queen-and-pawn endgame, the superior side needs a passed pawn. If the inferior side has one, he can often force a draw even if he is a couple of pawns down. David LeMoir, How To Be Lucky In Chess

The most valuable builder of judgment is the playing over of published games, always, of course, covering one side's moves with a card and thinking over what you would play before looking. Cecil Purdy, CJS Purdy's Fine Art Of Chess Annotation And Other Thoughts - Volume Two

Don't offer material when you can get good play through simple moves. Andrew Soltis, Grandmaster Secrets: Openings