yeah i know i was one of the founders lol
"Black was way behind in development. They went in the opening part of the game pawn hunting and when you do that and you play against reasonably strong player, you do not get away. And some people play like this in the earlier stage of their career and they get away several times and they keep playing it. It's like a little child; when it does something, some bad things and gets away with it, he keeps doing it until he gets punished. So once they get smacked they will stop doing it. That's why it's very very important for you to help those people by killing them. Once or twice, then they're gonna stop doing this. It's good for them, they're gonna learn something. It's good for you, you are gonna score points. So everybody is happy."
--- Roman Dzindzichashvili (on his Roman's Lab DVD Punishment for Delaying Development).
--- Roman Dzindzichashvili (on his Roman's Lab DVD Punishment for Delaying Development).
Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing. (Doc Hübner)
"It follows from the very nature of this book that an exhaustive list of relevant literature is impossible to produce."
This is really the original bibliography of "001 Zoom - Zero Hour Operative Opening Models" by Bent Larsen & Steffen Zeuthen.
This is really the original bibliography of "001 Zoom - Zero Hour Operative Opening Models" by Bent Larsen & Steffen Zeuthen.
i am fond of the Wikibooks appraisal of the Fraser variation of the Latvian Gambit.
"You're threatening to win the exchange? Coward! I shall FORCE you to win the exchange!"
"You're threatening to win the exchange? Coward! I shall FORCE you to win the exchange!"
"It is really too sad that it may happen in life as in chess , where a false move can force us to lose the game, but with this difference, that we cannot begin a second one, a return match."
-- Freud
-- Freud
This is why I like to study Bobby Fischer's games.
"What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him."
-- Magnus Carlsen
"What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him."
-- Magnus Carlsen
"A platitude often recited about chess is that one of the most difficult things to achieve is to win a winning position. That make sens, but for my part, I always found it more difficult to win a losing position."
-- Tim Krabbé
-- Tim Krabbé
Slightly more than a quote, but...
"I will never forget my game with GM Vasiukov on a USSR Championship. We reached a very complicated position where I was intending to sacrifice a knight. The sacrifice was not obvious; there was a large number of possible variations; but when I began to study hard and work through them, I found to my horror that nothing would come of it. Ideas piled up one after another. I would transport a subtle reply by my opponent, which worked in one case, to another situation where it would naturally prove to be quite useless. As a result my head became filled with a completely chaotic pile of all sorts of moves, and the infamous "tree of variations", from which the chess trainers recommend that you cut off the small branches, in this case spread with unbelievable rapidity.
And then suddenly, for some reason, I remembered the classic couplet by Korney Ivanović Chukovsky: "Oh, what a difficult job it was. To drag out of the marsh the hippopotamus".[26]
I do not know from what associations the hippopotamus got into the chess board, but although the spectators were convinced that I was continuing to study the position, I, despite my humanitarian education, was trying at this time to work out: just how WOULD you drag a hippopotamus out of the marsh? I remember how jacks figured in my thoughts, as well as levers, helicopters, and even a rope ladder.
After a lengthy consideration I admitted defeat as an engineer, and thought spitefully to myself: "Well, just let it drown!" And suddenly the hippopotamus disappeared. Went right off the chessboard just as he had come on ... of his own accord! And straightaway the position did not appear to be so complicated. Now I somehow realized that it was not possible to calculate all the variations, and that the knight sacrifice was, by its very nature, purely intuitive. And since it promised an interesting game, I could not refrain from making it.
And the following day, it was with pleasure that I read in the paper how Mikhail Tal, after carefully thinking over the position for 40 minutes, made an accurately calculated piece sacrifice. "
-- Mikhail Tal
"I will never forget my game with GM Vasiukov on a USSR Championship. We reached a very complicated position where I was intending to sacrifice a knight. The sacrifice was not obvious; there was a large number of possible variations; but when I began to study hard and work through them, I found to my horror that nothing would come of it. Ideas piled up one after another. I would transport a subtle reply by my opponent, which worked in one case, to another situation where it would naturally prove to be quite useless. As a result my head became filled with a completely chaotic pile of all sorts of moves, and the infamous "tree of variations", from which the chess trainers recommend that you cut off the small branches, in this case spread with unbelievable rapidity.
And then suddenly, for some reason, I remembered the classic couplet by Korney Ivanović Chukovsky: "Oh, what a difficult job it was. To drag out of the marsh the hippopotamus".[26]
I do not know from what associations the hippopotamus got into the chess board, but although the spectators were convinced that I was continuing to study the position, I, despite my humanitarian education, was trying at this time to work out: just how WOULD you drag a hippopotamus out of the marsh? I remember how jacks figured in my thoughts, as well as levers, helicopters, and even a rope ladder.
After a lengthy consideration I admitted defeat as an engineer, and thought spitefully to myself: "Well, just let it drown!" And suddenly the hippopotamus disappeared. Went right off the chessboard just as he had come on ... of his own accord! And straightaway the position did not appear to be so complicated. Now I somehow realized that it was not possible to calculate all the variations, and that the knight sacrifice was, by its very nature, purely intuitive. And since it promised an interesting game, I could not refrain from making it.
And the following day, it was with pleasure that I read in the paper how Mikhail Tal, after carefully thinking over the position for 40 minutes, made an accurately calculated piece sacrifice. "
-- Mikhail Tal
"When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogolyubov." ("Bogolyubov" means "beloved of God" in Russian.) - Efim Bogoljubov
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