Endgame Quotes - Page 3

• Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

  David Mitchell

  Games, Doe, Nero

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• Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

  Tim Hecker

  Fun, Mp3, Way

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

  Neil Young

  Mean, Usa, Iraq

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• The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Kings, Play, Numbers

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• Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.

  Neil McDonald

  Kings, Moving, Winning

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• Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

  Lubomir Kavalek

  Book, Years, May

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• I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

  Steve Toltz

  Book, Eye, Trying

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• The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Past, Player

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• If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear -- but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister -- but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Father

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• To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Thinking, Peers, Chess

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• For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

  Ronda Rousey

  Moving, Mma, Ideas

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

  Helen Thomas

  War, Order, Troops

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• I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

  Steve Carell

  Moving, Character, Games

  "First Banana". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Real, Book, Careers

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

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