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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:05:40 GMT -5
"I never make a mistake.......on the first move!"
– Ernst Grunfeld
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:07:51 GMT -5
"Capablanca never took his eyes off the chorus; Alekhine never looked up from his pocket chess set."
– A patron who took both players to a show in 1922
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Post by yitwail on Mar 20, 2006 15:16:08 GMT -5
"Nobody can give God pawn odds and win. But if I played white, I bet I could play God to a draw." Robert J. FIscher
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:28:38 GMT -5
"In a gambit, you give up a pawn for the sake of getting a lost game."
– Samuel Boden
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:30:13 GMT -5
"Always check; it may be mate." – Al Horowitz
"Refrain from useless checks." – Larry Evans
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:31:05 GMT -5
"Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe." – Indian proverb
"I might add that if a gnat studies in the right way, he may eventually become an elephant." – Nigel Davies
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:32:31 GMT -5
"I'd rather have a pawn than a finger."
– Reuben Fine
"It all depends: which pawn and which finger?"
– Roman Dzindzichashvili
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:33:55 GMT -5
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
– Raymond Chandler
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:36:43 GMT -5
"A man that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket."
– Richard Fenton
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:40:20 GMT -5
"Over-the-board chess is the favorite of mortals; correspondence chess is the favorite of the gods."
– Eduard Dyckhoff
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Post by yitwail on Mar 20, 2006 15:42:11 GMT -5
“There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine”
Mikhail Tal
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:53:54 GMT -5
"The eighth square at last! Oh how glad I am to get here. And what is this on my head?"
– Alice (in Through The Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll)
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Post by yitwail on Mar 20, 2006 15:55:50 GMT -5
After 1.e4 White's game is in its last throes!
– Julius Breyer -
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 16:01:48 GMT -5
"And Charlot took the chess-board and said thus: 'Ha, lecherous *astard, must you talk so much about it?' And raises the chess-board and gave him such a great blow with it that he dashed out all his brains and forced his two eyes out of his head, and he fell dead in the middle of the place."
– Report of how the son of Charlemagne murdered an opponent who celebrated too much, his victory over him in chess.
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 16:21:05 GMT -5
"My name is Rustam Kamsky. You annoyed my son. Prepare to die."
– Rustam Kamsky [who has obviously seen "The Princess Bride"]
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