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  • If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

    Kings   Play   Example  
  • 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.

    Art   Past   Player  
  • The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

    Keys   Police   Criminals  
  • You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

    Samuel Beckett (2012). “Endgame”, p.48, Faber & Faber
  • The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

    Kings   Fighting   Hands  
  • 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.

    Kings   Play   Numbers  
  • What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.

    Lying   Moving   Glasses  
    "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2007.
  • HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!

    Mean   Laughing   Endgame  
    Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.104, Faber & Faber
  • When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.

    Beautiful   Sports   Art  
    S'pore Chess News, September 07, 2010.
  • Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

    Book   Years   May  
  • Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

  • Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above.

  • All life long, the same questions, the same answers.

    Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.91, Faber & Faber
  • I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

  • Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

    Journey   Enjoy   Endgame  
  • When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

    War   Mean   Way  
  • The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

    Kings   Squares   Pieces  
  • Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.

    Real   Book   Careers  
    Source: genius.cat-v.org
  • A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

    José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt
  • The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.

  • 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.

    Games   Training   Chess  
    Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation
  • Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

    Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

    Chess   Firsts   Study  
  • 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.

  • You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

  • Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

    Years   Months   Helping  
  • The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

    Goes On   Ends   Endgame  
    Samuel Beckett (2012). “Endgame”, p.55, Faber & Faber
  • I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

    Games   Chess   Should  
  • When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

  • To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

    Thinking   Peers   Chess  
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