knightjogger

"Some time after 3 in the morning, totally exhausted, I leant back in my chair, completely staggered by the realization that a miracle had occurred: the mystery that for so long had escaped me, had been solved! Finally logic and reason had triumphed." - Lev Polugayevsky

"In the same way that pseudoscientific theories may appear convincing to those with little knowledge of science, 'pseudo-chess' books may appear convincing to their target audience. Unfortunately, such misleading chess books are distressingly common and whereas a belief in pseudoscience may not cost you

... rating points, a belief in pseudo-chess probably will." - John Nunn "On move 2 after adjournment when an extremely strong GM sinks into 40 minute thought, it means that the opponent's move must have been illogical; but in chess, logic and truth are not always synonymous." - Mikhail Tal

"I do not think that computerised commentaries a la Hubner or Khalifman are an adornment to chess, or that they are useful to chess players. A player should develop his tactical intuition, whereas catalogues of variations try to replace this with a total calculation of the possibilities." - V. Korchnoi

lat1(C) whispers: your face must have been as red as a well hung welsh ram from merthy tydfil "Philidor took chess out of the narrow confines of Euclidean observation into the boundless realm of Cartesian thought." - Euwe lat1(C) whispers: ive seen higher iq's on a well hung welsh ram

"The stronger a player is, the more likely he is to begin by saying "I don't know" when you ask him what is happening in a position." - GM Rowson "Next time before the game you had better look at yourself in a mirror." - Alexander Khalifman KRASAVCHIK(IM) kibitzes: spielman sucks

We fashioned this city on stolen memories. Different eras, different pasts all rolled into one: each night we revise it, refine it in order to learn about you and your fellow inhabitants: what makes you human? WE NEED TO BE LIKE YOU

"I see improvement mainly as a knitting together of the areas of competence so that gradually one learns more and more to sustain good play until there will be whole games without serious error; and even coherent games in which one can discern a single underlying intelligence." - Jon Speelman

"One of the favorite questions I hear from chess amateurs is: 'How many moves ahead can you calculate?' I try to explain that sometimes you cannot foresee more than 2-3 moves, as both you and your opponent have too wide a choice of possibilities." - Gelfand

"Now she's telling me that some are probably afraid of being confronted with logical behaviour" - Dr. Seuss "True, there was no chess specialisation in the college, and girls gathered to watch my helpless attempts at gymnastics and swimming, in order to laugh to their hearts' content." - Alexander Beliavsky