Endgame Play 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. My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

Vasily Smyslov

#3. If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

Alexander Kotov

#4. Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

M. Scott Peck

#5. Life's a riddle, child," he said lightly, "but if you can feel the bumps on the road, it means you're alive and in the game. And that is a good place to be.

C.A. Belmond

#6. My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!

Boris Spassky

#7. They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.

Dick Dale

#8. True love exists beyond space and time.

Darlene Zagata

#9. 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

#10. Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

Leonid Shamkovich

#11. Ere I was old? Ah woeful Ere,
Which tells me, Youth's no longer here!
O Youth! for years so many and sweet,
'Tis known that Thou and I were one,
I'll think it but a fond conceit
It cannot be that Thou art gone!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#12. Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

Bobby Fischer

#13. It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.

Donna McKechnie

#14. In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#15. 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

#16. In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.

James Maxton

#17. Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing.

Samuel Beckett

#18. Does your family play games, too?" She tries to sound off-hand.
"No. Just me - and my brother."
Which means her parents are in the casinos, then, leaving this kid in a collapsing mine. Okay, a virtual one, but still.

Nenia Campbell

#19. 'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life - the audience.

Simon McBurney