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Endgame Quotes by Pal Benko
- I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you…
- The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the…
- Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.
More Endgame Quotes
- 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
- 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
- The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the… — Jose Raul Capablanca
- To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca
- The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in… — Jose Raul Capablanca
- 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
- You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not… — Alexander Kotov
- Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,… — Bobby Fischer
- The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of… — Michael Stean
- Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game — Siegbert Tarrasch
- You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize… — Andre Leon Talley
- In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance. — Paul Keres