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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 16:24:52 GMT -5
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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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 16:26:17 GMT -5
"Have I ever mentioned you play an irritating game of chess, Mr. Spock?"
– Captain Kirk (after Spock had announced a forced mate)
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Post by yitwail on Mar 20, 2006 16:46:34 GMT -5
" I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Wookiee win. "
C3PO
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 18:01:50 GMT -5
"Never change a winning game; always change a losing one."
– Bill Tilden
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 18:04:33 GMT -5
"The wise learn many things from their foes."
– Aristophanes
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 18:04:52 GMT -5
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 21, 2006 17:03:51 GMT -5
[After playing out all possible outcomes for Global Thermonuclear War]
Joshua (a supercomputer): "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
from movie Wargames
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 21, 2006 17:06:49 GMT -5
"My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible."
- Dave Barry
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 21, 2006 17:08:42 GMT -5
"All women are inferior to men."
- Garry Kasparov
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 21, 2006 17:41:56 GMT -5
"I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt."
- Eric Sykes
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Post by perseus on Mar 21, 2006 20:00:48 GMT -5
Who said:
A successful chess player:
needs to know the openings by rote
be a magician in the middle game
and a calculating machine in the end game
?
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 22, 2006 17:10:54 GMT -5
"Play the opening like a book, the middle game like
a magician, and the endgame like a machine."
- Spielmann
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 22, 2006 17:12:18 GMT -5
"A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!"
- Tartakower
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 22, 2006 17:14:12 GMT -5
"That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your
opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one."
- Bobby Fischer
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 22, 2006 17:19:06 GMT -5
"Chess is as much a mystery as women."
- Purdy
"There are easier things to do than understand women, like nailing water to a tree."
- Kombucha
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