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• Chess is a beautiful mistress.
• For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than…
• Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in…
• The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master
• A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games,…
• A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!
• A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.
• Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these…
• All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure…
• Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.
• In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.
• Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book…

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