Endgame Quotes
48 quotes by 32 authors
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I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one…
— Steve Carell
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In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves,…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness…
— Alexander Kotov
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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play…
— Bobby Fischer
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The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening,…
— Michael Stean
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Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is…
— Andre Leon Talley
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In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
— Paul Keres
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I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.
— Pal Benko
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Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are…
— Pal Benko
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Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame…
— Edmar Mednis
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I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated,…
— Pal Benko
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The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super',…
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.
— Dawid Janowski
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A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a…
— Paul Keres
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If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames,…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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