Endgames Quotes

#1. I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

Pal Benko

#2. Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.

Pal Benko

#3. 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

#4. No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

Richard Reti

#5. If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#6. I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.

Lisa Edelstein

#7. A crumb from God is better than a loaf from the devil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

Billy Joel

#9. The love for money is only one among many.

Alfred Marshall

#10. She was his country; she was what he would miss until they were back together.

Tatjana Soli

#11. Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.

Andy Kindler