To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out,… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without… — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
“If she sees him again, she isn't sure what she might do. Only that it will include grievous bodily harm and possible… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
“I though I made it clear that harming you isn't high on my list of priorities." He shifts her in his hold… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon. — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
“His wide mouth falls into amused lines. “Everything dies. There’s no way to stop that tide. In the end, all we have… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame.… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
