Aron Nimzowitsch Quotes

#1. It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Hector Hugh Munro

#2. The threat is stronger than the execution.

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#3. Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

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#4. MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE WALL ... Hey, wait a minute!" some of you may be saying about now. "Wait a minute, wait a minute! Where's Dany and the dragons? Where's Tyrion? We hardly saw Jon Snow. That can't be all of it. ... " Well, no. There's more to come.

George R R Martin

#5. A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

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#6. The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

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#7. I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

Zac Efron

#8. If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

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#9. Even in a man without character, there's still a spark of Christmas.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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

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#11. Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.

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#12. (your my everything) from the book Waiting For A Fall

Sarah Tork

#13. How can I lose to such an idiot?

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#14. The sky is a soggy purple.

Ayn Rand

#15. The night of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

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#16. I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

Andrea Corr

#17. My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

Greg Giraldo

#18. The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

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#19. Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

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#20. The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

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#21. It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

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#22. A woman never loves to any man, she only controls him

Er.teji

#23. When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

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#24. The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.

Paul Weller

#25. In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

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#26. Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

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#27. Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

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#28. Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

Deb Caletti

#29. The beauty of a move lies not in it's appearance but in the thought behind it.

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#30. Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.

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#31. Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.

Shannon L. Alder