Nothing so pithy anyway. I'm not really competent to advise on chess matters, being a pretty bad player still. Steinitz did little more than provide me with a

Nothing so pithy anyway. I'm not really competent to advise on chess matters, being a pretty bad player still. Steinitz did little more than provide me with a way of understanding where I went wrong when I make my inevitable mistakes. I understand that Nimzowitsch's two books, My System & Chess Praxis, might satisfy a desire for fundamental principles. I haven't read them though.