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Post by Wookiee on Jun 20, 2006 13:33:15 GMT -5
"Chess and theatre often lead to madness."
- Arrabal
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Post by Wookiee on Jun 20, 2006 13:37:00 GMT -5
"...the ultimate blunder is when a player resigns in a winning position."
- Tim Krabbé
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Post by Wookiee on Jun 20, 2006 16:31:53 GMT -5
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
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Post by Wookiee on Jun 20, 2006 16:32:46 GMT -5
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 5, 2006 16:39:40 GMT -5
"To all other chessplayers, the mistake, not the pawn, is the soul of chess. Without mistakes no wins. Long live the blunder! What would chess be without all the hung pieces, the mates in one, the blindness, the Fingerfehler, the mix-ups of move-order, the Nf5xd6 of Amsterdam 1956 or the d4-d3 of Havana 1965?"
- Tim Krabbé
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 5, 2006 16:40:06 GMT -5
"...without mistakes there wouldn't be any decisive games at all."
- Kenneth Sloan
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 5, 2006 16:40:30 GMT -5
"You need not play well - just help your opponent to play badly."
- Genrikh Chepukaitis
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 11, 2006 13:00:17 GMT -5
"While the Baroque rules of chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go."
- Edward Lasker
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 11, 2006 13:08:04 GMT -5
"The board is a mirror of the mind of the players as the moments pass. When a master studies the record of a game he can tell at what point greed overtook the pupil, when he became tired, when he fell into stupidity, and when the maid came by with tea."
- Anonymous
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 11, 2006 13:08:38 GMT -5
"A few moments to learn, a lifetime to master."
- Ancient Proverb
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 11, 2006 13:09:39 GMT -5
"Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double entry accounting."
- Trevanian
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Post by Stan Steliga on Jul 11, 2006 13:43:50 GMT -5
I've been meaning to post this here for a while...
My favorite chess reference in a song is in the song "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan
"Like the castle in his corner in a medieval game
I foresee terrible trouble but I stay here just the same"
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 11, 2006 15:10:28 GMT -5
"Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice."
- Rudyard Kipling
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 13, 2006 17:35:47 GMT -5
"Climbing, in particular, is a paradoxically intellectual pastime, but with this difference: you have to think with your body. Every move has to be worked out in terms of effort, balance and consequences. It is like playing chess with your body. If I make a mistake, the consequences are immediate, obvious, embarrassing and possibly painful."
- A. Alvarez
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Post by Wookiee on Jul 19, 2006 14:12:38 GMT -5
"That is a woman's game. All the wild cards support a 'weak' hand. In a man's game there are no wild cards."
- Lt. Cmdr. Worf
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