Status Updates From Common Sense in Chess

"Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination."

“Whether a nearly balanced position allows a
forced win to the one or the other party depends
usually on the slightest differences, so much so,
indeed, that it would be a hopeless undertaking to
search for certain rules, or a mathematical formula
that would give you its solution without the application of intellectual power in each special case.”