"Lose one pawn and you lose the end game. Unless you are good enough."
I made that quote up.
"He left it en pris so i took it en passant" - Blackburne when asked about drinking his opponents whiskey during a simul
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.” – Ralph Charell
I never understood what this quote quite meant until very recently.
"Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance."
-Garry Kasparov
Anybody knows where Lichess get their tournament page quotes from?
Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else.
Gary Kasparov-
"Chess wisdoms are like assholes,everybody's got one" -Benjamin Franklin
@NeverBeenTimid shiaat is that you 2Q1C? I found you!! That guy was a legendary troll on
chess.com forums, heck people are still talking about him there.
"No, Lawrence. This is not, how chess works!" - Peter Svidler, shortly before losing to Lawrence Trent.
“As for the opinions of Garry [Kasparov] and Vlad [Kramnik], I mean, they are entitled to their stupid opinions. That’s all I have to say.”
-Magnus Carlsen