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    What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

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    When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

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    You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

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    When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

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    Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

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    Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

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    You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

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    Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.

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    Divided - No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty spears or the beasts that howl into the dark for release. Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.

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    And whatever happens next, I know that I am changed. I can no longer defend a king who doesn’t value me, the pawn who faces the enemy front lines. I can no longer fight for my own virtue, a knight who wields her sword in service. And I can no longer hide behind the walls of Gabriel’s castle. I’m a queen in my own right, whether I fall or fight another day, whatever my next move, wherever I land. I have the whole board to consider, every direction available. My fate may not decide the game, but I can go anywhere I want. The queen has freedom the king does not. She decides her own fate

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    What Will Linger/Hollow of Him - They crept so quietly back. Mere hints of words, at first, then whispers in the loud echoing a winter past. In this place, hollow of Him, his poetry resounded. I could almost taste the fragments of the worlds he had discovered. I remember the ache in his words; you could see each syllable smoulder in his gaze.

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    Quando si sposta il cavallo alla terza mossa significa che si hanno intenzioni bellicose.

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    The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name? In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... hesitant... inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings. To drown in the offing. Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.

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    All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

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    ...why did you stick with me?” “That’s easy, Alice,” he said. His amber eyes melted into hers. “It’s the first rule of chess: always protect your queen.

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    A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

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    After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

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    Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

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    Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

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    Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

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    Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

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    Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

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    Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

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    Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

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    Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

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    Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

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    Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

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    Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

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    Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

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    Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

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    Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

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    Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

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    For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

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    I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

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    Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

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    I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

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    I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

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    I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

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    Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

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    Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

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    I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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    If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

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    If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

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    I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

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    I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

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    I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

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    In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

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    I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

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    I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

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    In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead