It's time for another collection of quotations...
Adequate compensation for a sacrifice is having a sound combination leading to a winning position: adequate compensation for a blunder is having your opponent snatch defeat from the jaws of victory - Bruce A. Moon
Careful. We don't want to learn from this. - Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes)
Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practice it. - Fred Reinfeld
Half this game is ninety percent mental - Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
"There are only two kinds of moves in the opening," Tartakower once remarked. "Moves which are wrong and moves which could be wrong."
Like every great chess player, Franklin K. Young was well aware of the superiority of certain opening moves. "Always deploy," Young once advised, "so that the right oblique can be readily established in case the objective plane remains open or becomes permanently located on the centre or on the King's wing, or that the crochet aligned may readily be established if the objective plane becomes permanently located otherwise than at the extremity of the strategic front." Young later clarified the passage as follows: "The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4."
Cardinal Borromeo was once censured for the inordinate time he spent playing and practicing the game of chess. "What would you do if you were busy playing and the world came to an end?" he was asked one day. "Continue playing," he simply replied.
Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough. - Tartakower
The judicious violation of general principles marks the master-mind. - Löwenthal
I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.– Emanuel Lasker
I make errors, therefore I am!– Saviely Tartakower
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. - Dave Barry
A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!- Tartakower
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it.- Judith Polgar
I don't want to make the wrong mistake. - Unknown
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
To all other chessplayers, the mistake, not the pawn, is the soul of chess. Without mistakes no wins. Long live the blunder! What would chess be without all the hung pieces, the mates in one, the blindness, the Fingerfehler, the mix-ups of move-order, the Nf5xd6 of Amsterdam 1956 or the d4-d3 of Havana 1965? - Tim Krabbé
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject.... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. - Luther Burbank
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. - Jean de la Bruyere
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.- Lewis Carroll
If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more chances to learn and win. - John W. Holt, Jr.
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. - C.S. Lewis
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