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Post by Wookiee on Apr 11, 2006 10:50:42 GMT -5
In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves! -  |
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 11, 2006 11:27:45 GMT -5
Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
- Calvin
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 11, 2006 11:28:31 GMT -5
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - |
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 17, 2006 14:27:08 GMT -5
In 1925, Reti played against 30 players simultaneously without watching the chess board (blindfold). He won almost all the games. It was a world record. When he was going home after that, he forgot a suitcase. When somebody reminded him about it, Reti said:
"Thank you very much. My memory is so bad......"
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 17, 2006 14:30:16 GMT -5
Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practice it.
- Fred Reinfeld
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 17, 2006 14:33:17 GMT -5
There is not the mystery in ten murders that there is in one game of chess.
- Detective Linley (in Two Bottles of Relish)
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 17, 2006 14:58:21 GMT -5
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
- Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 17, 2006 16:42:48 GMT -5
The "bishop" came to my church today.. that guy was an imposter, he never once moved diagonally. -  |
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 17, 2006 16:54:32 GMT -5
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
- Annon.
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Post by Wookiee on Apr 17, 2006 17:32:22 GMT -5
The easy way is always mined. - |
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Post by perseus on Apr 29, 2006 15:53:27 GMT -5
There is a story about a Turkish reformer who wanted to discourage women from wearing the veil. Instead of attempting to forbid it directly (the mathematician’s approach), he issued a decree that all prostitutes must wear veils. This indirect ‘trick’ proved the workable, effective way to his objective and shows the sort of thinking which chessplayers are often rather good at. www.jlevitt.dircon.co.uk/iq.htm |
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Post by perseus on Apr 29, 2006 20:15:04 GMT -5
On reflection, this seemed to be arse-about-face inasmuch the Taliban probably said that any girl not wearing a veil is a prostitute. It did seem incongruous at first, and I daresay somebody with a high IQ (or chess brain) would see it instantly and the average player within three minutes. If ...... There is a story about a Turkish reformer who wanted to discourage women from wearing the veil. Instead of attempting to forbid it directly (the mathematician’s approach), he issued a decree that all prostitutes must wear veils. This indirect ‘trick’ proved the workable, effective way to his objective and shows the sort of thinking which chessplayers are often rather good at. www.jlevitt.dircon.co.uk/iq.htm |
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Post by Wookiee on May 5, 2006 9:55:29 GMT -5
"Talent? What is talent? It is 99 percent labor and 1 percent natural."
- GM Gata Kamsky
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Post by Wookiee on May 5, 2006 9:55:58 GMT -5
A pointless check only to postpone defeat is known as a spite check. It raises eyebrows.
- Annon.
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Post by Wookiee on May 5, 2006 14:36:22 GMT -5
"Chess is not something that drives people mad," chess-playing psychologist William Hartston once remarked. "Chess is something that keeps mad people sane."
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