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In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had…
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Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make…
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I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.
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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…
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There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and…
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Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down…
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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,…
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There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.
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Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It…
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According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.
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Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is…
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The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king,…
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The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes…
— David Rockefeller
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Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution…
— Ronald Reagan
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They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the…
— Ann Coulter
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Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done…
— Dick Durbin
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Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in…
— Christopher Bond
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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