Chess Quote by Samuel Reshevsky

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

— Leonid Shamkovich

The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining…

— Paul Keres

Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the…

— Fred Reinfeld

“As I read it I was thinking of the phenomenon of endgame. Although the concept can apply to many games, it is most common…

— Jeffery Deaver

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

— David Bronstein

Well, as a player you try to learn how to win, and when you get exposed to success there's also disappointment that comes along…

— Martin Brodeur

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory,…

— Pal Benko

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

— Garry Kasparov

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

— Dawid Janowski

The person who is ahead in the end will have the advantage.

— Jean-Claude Juncker