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If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off


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I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.



A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.



If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.



Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.



I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.



Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)



I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.



Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.



Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.





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He learned that kisses and touches and professions of love could make you forget, and that the more he was with Kieran, the more he wanted to be with him and not with anyone else.

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... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...

... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...



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I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

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Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.



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