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Amusing Chess QUOTES
"Lose with grace and resign in a timely manner. If you are a lot of material down and don't have sufficient compensation,
it is time to lay down your arms. This way you show your respect for both chess and your opponent."
..........GM Svetlana Matveeva
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Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.
..........Edmar Medinis
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"Do not regard your opponent as a sheep, but rather as a wolf".
..........Russian chess proverb
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"Black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5 leaves him always trying to get into the game".
..........Howard Staunton
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Play the board, not the man.
..........Bobby Fischer
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"We were like bishops of opposite colors."
..........Boris Spassky on a former marriage.
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Top 10 moments when you should sense DANGER in chess:
1. There has been a change in the pawn structure. Your opponent has eight and you don't have any.
2. Your opponent begins to throw pawns at your eyes.
3. You have a postion won but your opponent has a gun.
4. The Director tells you not to bother turning in your scoresheet after thegame.
5. Before the game begins you notice your opponent's initials are 'GM'.
6. After completing your development you sense your opponent playing the endgame.
7. Just as you make your opening move your opponent announces mate in eleven.
8. You don't control any squares at all.
9. Your draw offer sends all the people watching your game into uncontrollable laughter.
10. Your opponent has three bishops.
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"Whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available for said move, you should evaluate which rook to move,
and once you have made up your mind, MOVE THE OTHER ONE!!!".
..........Oscar Pano
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"For a successful defense, you should use the minimum possible number of defenders".
..........Wilhelm Steinitz
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"When I play WHITE, I win because I move first. When I play BLACK, I win because I am
Bogolubov."
..........Efim Bogolubov
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" I just think we should look at this as a chess match between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov. "
..........Louis Gerstner, IBM Chairman about the Deeper Blue-Kasparov match (1997)
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"To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game."..........
..........Savielly Tartakover
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"Each game of chess means there's one less variation left to be played. Each day we get through means one or two fewer mistakes remain to be made".
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"Chess is a very complex game, but itīs not as complex as life."
..........Garri Kasparov.
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Three small mistakes equate to one losing mistake, so limit yourself to two small mistakes!
..........David Bronstein
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"Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught. Our joust is of a gentler kind. A measuring of Mind with Mind. A tournament of thought" .........
..........Willard Fiske
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"For a correspondence chess player, life is literally an uninterrupted game of chess."
..........Dyckhoff
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A cardinal rule for the best use of rooks in endgames: Use the rook to cut off the King.
..........Cecil Purdy
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One of the first maxims of Rook play is "TAKE." Taking something frees the Rook for other work.
..........Cecil Purdy
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One of the most reliable maxims in chess is: Never use a rook to defend a pawn.
..........Cecil Purdy
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A Rook on the seventh rank is as weak in the opening as it is strong in the endgame.
..........Cecil Purdy.
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Early castling is dubious in a very closed game.
..........Cecil Purdy.
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Don't support a threatened piece, move it.
..........Cecil Purdy.
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"Alekhine's attacks come suddenly, like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear sky."
..........Garri Kasparov
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"A well-played game has a certain logical crispness about it."
..........Graham Burgess
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"Passive defense is the last thing to think about in a bad position".
..........Mihai Suba
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"Morphy was probably the greatest chess genius of them all."
..........Bobby Fischer
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My favorite chess piece is the one I win with.
..........Anonymous.
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Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.
..........Bobby Fischer.
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"I have never in my life played the French Defense, which is the dullest of all openings".
..........Steinitz
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Chess is a struggle, and that's why victory demands permanent struggle."
..........Boris Spasski.
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"The player who plays best in a tournament never wins first. He finishes second behind the player with the most luck."
..........Savielly Tartakower
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"The loss of the time at the beginnig has no real matter, if it creates the base for future combinations."
..........Chigorin
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"I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically."
..........Bobby Fischer
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"I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of my book."
..........Jose Capablanca, My Chess Career
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"A chess game is a dialogue, a conversation between a player and his opponent."
..........Bruce Moon
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"Even the most scintillating combination requires a solid foundation of pattern recognition."
..........Bruce Moon
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"It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realizable plan."
..........Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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"Premature attacks and early Queen forays tend to generate tactical opportunities for the opponent."
..........Bruce Moon
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"A tactical situation demands a counterattack, not defense!"
..........Spielman
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"There are only two kinds of moves in the opening: moves which are wrong and moves which could be wrong."
..........Savielly Tartakower
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they shall be done with their blunders.
..........Friedrich Nietzsche
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A Passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
..........Jose Raul Capablanca
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The pin is mightier than the sword.
..........Fred Reinfeld
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The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary.
..........Aron Nimzovich
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Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.
..........Mikhail Chigorin
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The Passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient.
..........Aron Nimzovich
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"Style? I've got no style.".
..........Anatoly Karpov.
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"Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it. Checkmate ends the game".........
..........Nigel Short
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"Let us therefore turn to games of skill, and, in the first place, turn to Chess."
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"No chess grandmaster is normal. They only differ in the extent of their madness" .......
..........Viktor Korchnoi.
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The Oedipus Variation sacrificing the king to win the queen."
..........Jan Jotun
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"All chessplayers should have a hobby".
..........Savielly Tartakower.
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"Some part of a mistake is always correct." .............
..........Savielly Tartakower
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"Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!"
..........Siegbert Tarrasch
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A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge, it is a battle of nerves."
..........David Bronstein
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"Everybody can play well in better positions, but to be a good player it is necessary to also play well in bad positions."..............
..........Samuel Lasker
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"At the highest level, chess is a talent to control unrelated things. It is like controlling chaos."
..........Garri Kasparov
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"Practical play shows that errors occur far more frequently on defense than on attack."
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You cannot play chess if you are kind.
..........French proverb
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Before the endgame, the gods have placed the middlegame.
..........Siegbert Tarrasch
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"The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move!"
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"Pawns are the soul of the game. They alone create attack and defense. The way they are deployed decides the fate of the game.".........
..........Philidor
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Short of actual blunders, the lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat.
..........Fred Reinfeld
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"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."..........
..........Wilhelm Steinitz
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"Chess and theater often lead to madness."
..........Arrabal
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Chess is what it's all about.
..........William H. Nulf
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You can learn much from your mistakes, though it is infinitely kinder to your ego to learn from someone else's.
..........Fred Reinfeld
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"We like to think."..
..........Gary Kasparov, when asked why he and Karpov get into time trouble so often.
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Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
..........Siegbert Tarrasch
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What would chess be without silly mistakes?
..........Kurt Richter
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Chess is like a beautiful mistress.
..........Bent Larsen
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Chess is the art of analysis.
..........Mikhail Botvinnik
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If you're too busy to play chess, you're too busy.
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There are those who feel that chess is a matter of life or death. It's not. It's more important than that.
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Chess players mate better because they know all of the best positions.
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The winner of a chess game is the player who makes the next-to-the-last mistake.
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Chess is a moving experience.
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No one ever won a chess game by resigning.
..........I. A. Horowitz
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A pawn move is forever.
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Chess is war !!
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A draw can be obtained normally by repeating three good moves, but also by making one bad move.
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Chess players do it blindfolded.
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Chess games have three phases. The first when one hopes he has an advantage; the second when one believes that he has an advantage; and the third when one knows he is going to lose.
..........Samuel Tartakower
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The blunders are all there on the board waiting to be made.
..........Samuel Tartakower
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The first principle of attack--Don't let the opponent develop.
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Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.
..........Yuri Razuvayev
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
..........Gary Kasparov
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Good positions don't win games, good moves do.
..........Gerald Abrahams
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Chess is mental torture.
..........Garry Kasparov
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During a chess competition a player should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.
..........Alexander Alekhine
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I'd rather have a pawn than a finger.
..........Rueben Fine
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No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King.
..........Koblentz
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The pawns are the soul of chess.
..........Philidor
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Only a strong player knows how weakly he plays.
..........Samuel Tartakower
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Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess.
..........Sergei Gerzadowicz
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A good player is always lucky.
..........Jose Raul Capablanca
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Pawns are born free, but we are always putting them in chains.
..........Soltis
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One bad move nullifies forty good ones.
..........I.A.Horowitz
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The pair of bishops in the hands of a strong player is an awsome weapon.
..........Aron Nimzovich
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There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.
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Once a King, always a King. Once a Queen, always a Queen, but once a Knight is enough.
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"A sacrifice is proof that either White or Black made mistake on the chessboard."
..........Samuel Tartakower
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"During an opening of a chess game you have to be a scientist, during the middle-game, a magician and during the end-game, a machine."
..........Jose Raul Capablanca
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"I am in favor of one formula : The gift of intuition instead of accumulating many variations."
......... Vassili Smyslov
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"Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect"
......... Emmanuel Lasker
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"I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake".
......... Emmanuel Lasker
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"Analysis is the best proof that you could have won a game which you have already lost."
..........Eliott Hearst
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Austrian grandmaster Ernst Gruenfeld always started his white games with 1.d4. He was asked why does he never play 1.e4. He answered, "I try not to make mistakes at
the opening."
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"Ten murders don't contain more felonies than one game of chess."
..........Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"There are two kinds of sacrifices: the correct ones and mine."
..........Mikhail Tal
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"Chess world's percentage structure: one master, two chess journalists, 3 young eager talents and 100 understanding commentators."
..........Samuel Tartakower
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It is always better to sacrifice your opponent's men.
..........Samuel Tartakower
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I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend.
..........Miguel Najdorf when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder.
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In chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
..........Emanuel Lasker
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Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, forget about it.
..........Anand Vishwanathan
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The only thing chess players have in common is chess.
..........Lodewijk Prins
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
..........Hindu proverb
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Methodical thinking is of better use in chess than is inspiration.
..........Cecil Purdy
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Many have become chess masters, but none have become the master of chess.
..........Siegbert Tarrasch
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First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game.
..........Siegbert Tarrasch
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The boy doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.
..........Mikhail Botvinnik
(referring to a 12-year-old boy named Anatoly Karpov)
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Strategy requires thought; tactics requires observation.
..........Max Euwe
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Good offense and good defense both begin with good development.
..........Bruce Moon
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Chess is not like life. Chess has rules!
..........Mark Pasternak
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Discovered check is the dive bomber of the chessboard.
..........Reuben Fine
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Tactics is what you use when there is something to do, strategy is what you use when there is nothing to do.
..........Savielly Tartakower
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"When you have an advantage, you must attack, otherwise you might lose the advantage."
..........Steinitz
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"The truth in chess is much more in the ideas than in the variations."
..........Reti
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"The attack often becomes irresistible when the defense has to attend to more than one weakness at the same time."
..........Samuel Tartakower
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"It isn't important what comes off the board, but what stays on the board."
..........Yasser Seirawan
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"As a matter of fact, the fight for initiative is the basic law of a chess game!"
..........Steinitz
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"When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore in a chess game, it is time to panic."
..........John van der Wiel
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"The sign of a great master is his ability to win a "won" game quickly and painlessly."..........
..........Irving Chernev
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I warn you well, chess is no child's play.
..........Geoffrey Chaucer
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"Many sacrifices don't require concrete calculation at all. It is sufficient to only glance at the arising position to convince us that the sacrifice is correct."
..........Mikhail Tal
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"In chess, only the attacker wins"
..........Kotov
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"Thou shalt not shilly-shally!"--
..........Aron Nimzovich
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"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
..........A shout from chessmaster Aron Nimzovich after resigning.
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"...what else exists in the world besides chess?"
..........Vladimir Nabokov
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This page courtesy WCCF Director Stanley
Bass
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