Keres S Quotes

#1. The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

Janet Morris

#2. Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

Irving Chernev

#3. Chess is a test of wills.

Paul Keres

#4. At the end of the Peterson trial, my daughter turns to me and she goes, 'Daddy, are you going to kill Mommy?' 'Oh, honey - that's up to mommy, isn't it?

Christopher Titus

#5. Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

Jim Parsons

#6. Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

Paul Keres

#7. A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Paul Keres

#8. I was unlucky, like my country.

Paul Keres

#9. Lost love weighs heavier than lost time.

Tom Cardamone

#10. In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Paul Keres

#11. Psalm 57:1
Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

Ronie Kendig

#12. An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

Paul Keres

#13. For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

Mikhail Tal

#14. However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

Paul Keres

#15. Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Jared Diamond