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Games Quotes by Howard Staunton
- After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game
- To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.
- After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes
- If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or…
- If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the…
- When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn
- A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square…
- The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly…
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