Znosko Borovsky Quotes

#1. It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#2. It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#3. Though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#4. It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#5. Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#6. The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some sparks of the genius of masters, and in addition some rays of the glory that is the masters.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#7. Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#8. Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.

Simon Sinek

#9. The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#10. All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#11. It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#12. All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing.

Caroline Dhavernas

#13. I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.

Ann Goldstein

#14. I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.

Hulk Hogan

#15. A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#16. I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

Penelope Spheeris

#17. 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

#18. Haste, the great enemy.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#19. To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#20. When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#21. Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.

Victor Davis Hanson

#22. We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#23. Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#24. Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

Brene Brown

#25. All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#26. Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#27. Socialism with a human face.

Alexander Dubcek

#28. There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

Alan Watts

#29. Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole

Nnimmo Bassey

#30. Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

Lajos Portisch