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Post by Wookiee on May 19, 2006 14:12:10 GMT -5
“The judicious violation of general principles marks the master-mind.”
- Löwenthal
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Post by Wookiee on May 19, 2006 14:14:38 GMT -5
‘Dr P. Gabarro, a prominent Barcelona surgeon is a keen chessplayer. Perhaps that is why the idea struck him that skin grafted on to extensive injured areas might knit better if applied in a chessboard pattern. Anyway, he tried out his “hunch”, and the result, illustrated by grisly but impressive photographs in a recent article by him in the British Medical Journal, has been a great success. “Chessboard grafts” may soon be accepted medical practice.’
- page 371 of CHESS, 18 June 1955
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Post by Wookiee on May 19, 2006 15:16:22 GMT -5
"I am not a famous player because I stink as a player. My teaching has nothing to do with it."
"As you probably know, there are many ways to teach chess, and one of my favorites is not to teach it at all, to let the student do most of the work."
"At 15 dollars an hour I was suddenly one of the highest paid chess teachers in the United States, but it didn’t matter. I didn’t have any students."
- Bruce Pandolfini
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Post by Wookiee on May 19, 2006 16:07:48 GMT -5
Chess is not for everyone. Most people are not egotistical (when I deign to notice them), nor are they obsessional (not that I am; I'm not. Really, I'm not. I'm not I'm not I'm not); nor are they competitive enough (I think I've proved that this is the best post on this board).
- from a chess blog
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Post by Wookiee on May 19, 2006 16:49:53 GMT -5
Learn to Mate.
- The catch-line of a spectacularly unsuccessful campaign for the chess club at Sentinel Secondary School, West Vancouver, circa 1966.
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Post by perseus on May 22, 2006 18:00:45 GMT -5
"A computer beat me in chess, but it was no match when it came to kickboxing"
Comedian Emo Philips
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Post by perseus on May 22, 2006 18:07:35 GMT -5
PS: I wouldn't bank on the last one. The chess program could be primed to electrocute the human opponent, if he should dare win ?!
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Post by Wookiee on May 24, 2006 17:16:43 GMT -5
"You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!"
- Adams
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Post by Wookiee on May 24, 2006 17:17:31 GMT -5
"I don't want to make the wrong mistake."
- Unknown
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Post by Wookiee on May 24, 2006 17:18:22 GMT -5
"And the Devil bared his teeth in a grin as he pushed his c-pawn one square, for the Caro-Kann comes from the deepest pits of Hell."
- Shternshain
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Post by Wookiee on May 24, 2006 17:19:24 GMT -5
"If cunning alone were needed to excel, women would be the best chess players".
- Albin
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Post by Wookiee on May 24, 2006 17:21:55 GMT -5
"Women are far too sensible to play chess."
- a woman
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Post by Wookiee on Jun 3, 2006 0:58:03 GMT -5
"When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad."
- Siegbert Tarrasch
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Post by Wookiee on Jun 3, 2006 0:58:54 GMT -5
BOARD: What chess wives are at chess tournaments with their husbands.
FOOL'S MATE: A chess player's spouse.
STALEMATE: A spouse who keeps repeating the same old jokes.
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Post by Wookiee on Jun 20, 2006 13:31:46 GMT -5
"Checkers is for tramps."
- Paul Morphy
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