Edmar Mednis Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.

Merle Haggard

#3. If you wish to have leisure for your mind, either be a poor man, or resemble a poor man. Study

Seneca.

#4. Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

Edmar Mednis

#5. That's life. Always something, more good than bad, but always interesting if you're paying attention.

Dean Koontz

#6. There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.

Noam Shpancer

#7. One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

Edmar Mednis

#8. Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

Edmar Mednis

#9. Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.

Edmar Mednis

#10. The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.

Edmar Mednis

#11. 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

#12. It's so weird how life is so full of moving around
people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person's going to steal your heart. You never know which is going to settle your soul. All you can do is look. And hope. And believe.

Natalie Lloyd

#13. Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

Edmar Mednis

#14. I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

Petra Nemcova

#15. A moving finger having once written could never be lured back to unwrite.

Isaac Asimov

#16. In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

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#17. Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

Edmar Mednis

#18. You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.

Edmar Mednis

#19. He had been groping and grabbing after certainty, as if it were something he could possess. He had been demanding a security, a guarantee, which is not granted: and which, if granted, would become a prison.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#20. The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.

Edmar Mednis

#21. And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.

Winston Churchill

#22. happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.

Yuval Noah Harari

#23. Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

Edmar Mednis