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“Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?”

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Daniel J. King

Daniel J. King, born on August 28, 1963, is an accomplished writer whose works span various genres, known for his profound insights and unique narrative style. more

“First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.”

Firsts Ideas Lost Practice Study Player Tree Essentials Essence Woods Chess Variation Strategic Fashionable Orientation Tactical

Author:Lev Polugaevsky

“My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.”

Firsts Book Play Whole Games Practice Study Chess Collections Tactics Universality Karpov

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.”

Looks Ideas Games Practice Study Missing Months Thousand Ten Chess Trends New Ideas

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.”

Thinking Understanding Practice Study Player Chess

Author:Yasser Seirawan

“From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.”

Years Ideas Games My Own Practice Gone Study Player Plans Position Return Chess New Ideas Glances Variation

Author:Efim Geller

“The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.”

Whole Reality Common Practice Study Talent Concepts Chess Abstract Criteria Entirety

Author:Alexander Morozevich

“At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.”

Pieces Fortune Chess Queens Draught

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer

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