Endgame Quotes - Page 2

• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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• The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Keys, Police, Criminals

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• The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Chess, Arena, Uncommon

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Laughing, Stories, World

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  Ralph Ellison

  Lying, Beginnings And Ends, Ends

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.31, Vintage

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• When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

  Debra Messing

  Life, Letting Go, Believe

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• It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Winning, Player, Chess

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• Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

  Ivanka Trump

  Enjoy, Modeling

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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

  Edmar Mednis

  Games, Chess Game, Moments

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• No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

  Richard Reti

  Ease, Chess, Capablanca

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• Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.

  Edmar Mednis

  Play, Moments, Enormous

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

  Dawid Janowski

  Games, Chess, Should

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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 probably where you need the most practice.

  Pal Benko

  Opportunity, Practice, Needs

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• I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

  Pal Benko

  Player, Chess, Study

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• Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Journey, Treating Others, Enjoy

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• My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Play, Understanding, Fascination

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• Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

  Bobby Fischer

  Simple, Player, Games

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• What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.

  Tana French

  Lying, Moving, Glasses

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2007.

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• The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

  Michael Stean

  Games, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

  Michael Stean (2013). “Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

  Boris Spassky

  Men, Target, Chess

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• My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!

  Boris Spassky

  Play, Games, Perfect

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• Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

  James C. Collins

  Years, Months, Helping

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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, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Should Have, Psychology

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• I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Glasses, Hands

  "I'll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK", www.dailymail.co.uk. August 3, 2009.

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• You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Fashion, Live Your Life, World

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