"What would chess be without silly mistakes?" Richter
"Tactics flow from a superior position." B. Fischer
"Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind." B. Fischer
"White tries to complicate matters, but only succeeds in accelerating the catastrophe." A. Alekhine
"One bad move nullifies forty good ones." Horowitz
"Checkers is for tramps." Paul Morphy
"This is what happened to Tom Kitten, and it shows how unwise it is to go up in a chimney in an old house, where one does not know their way, and where there are enormous rats." - From the Tale of Samuel Whiskers
"My thinking apparatus stopped functionng normally and let slip a deserved win." Dr. Tarrasch
Type | Rating | Best | |||
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Type | Blitz | Rating | 1279 | Best | 1645 (17/Oct/2007) |
Type | Standard | Rating | 1632 | Best | 1888 (27/Oct/2008) |
Type | 5-minute | Rating | 1333 | Best | 1618 (04/Apr/2008) |
Type | 1-minute | Rating | 986 | Best | |
Type | 15-minute | Rating | 1650 | Best | 1790 (07/Feb/2016) |
Type | 3-minute | Rating | 1199 | Best | 1227 (21/Jun/2020) |
Type | 25-minute | Rating | 1606 | Best |