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
“Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy; their entire delusion lies within the fact that they… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
“Hamm: What's he doing? (CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.) Clov: He's crying. (He closes lid, straightens… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
“You know the end to this. Don't you? How could you be here listening to this tale if you didn't? But sometimes… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
“So endgames are naturally messy. They may not be very dynamic, but when an active war is shutting down, there is still… — Venkatesh G. Rao Copy Share Image
“I remember something." "Yes?" "You told me once that you were going to break my heart." He rolls over to face her.… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Fans are always talking about endgame as though endgame has been chosen from minute 1. I don't know that you could talk… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“You're going to the ball?" "Aren't you? I was led to believe we had no choice in the matter." Vol cracks a… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of… — Michael Stean Copy Share Image
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much… — Dennis Ritchie 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
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
“I'm not asking you to come-" "Thanks." Vol studies herself in the cracked mirror and secures the braid with the tie. "I'm… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best… — Carl Paladino 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
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 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
“That's right. Endgame. The FAYZ barrier is coming down; at least that's my bet. But there's also a ninety percent chance you… — Michael Grant 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
The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
“Come here. Then we'll talk." That sounds like a bad idea to her. "I can hear you fine right here." "Is it… — Nenia Campbell 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