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“Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.”

Player Valuable Chess Traits Endgame

Author:Pal Benko

“No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.”

Chess Ease Elegant Endgame Capablanca

Author:Richard Reti

“In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.”

Actors Stars Kings Chess Extras Endgame

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“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.”

Ifs Play Study Example Particular Kings Chess Classic Endgame

Author:Alexander Kotov

“In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.”

Order Games Study Chess Chess Game Endgame

Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening preparation and, possibly, not altogether perfect play in the endgame. In my games things often did not reach the endgame!”

Play Moments Feelings Games Perfect Critical Chess Opening Preparation Good Feeling Endgame Forte Critical Moments

Author:Boris Spassky

“The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.”

Men Turns Weak Chess Target Convenient Shortcomings Pawns Endgame Chess Pawns

Author:Boris Spassky

“It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.”

Happens Winning Player Position Chess Reluctant Endgame

Author:Samuel Reshevsky

“My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.”

Play Understanding Study Development Chess Aesthetic Beneficial Fascination Endgame

Author:Vasily Smyslov

“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.”

Enjoy Journey Believer Treated Life Journey Endgame Treating Others Enjoy The Journey

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.”

Ends Lying Endgame Beginnings And Ends

Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“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.”

Way Mean War Ends Asks Winner Loser Materialistic Endgame Analyze This

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.”

Peaceful Korean Endgame Peninsulas Reunification

Author:Lee Myung-bak