Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games.

Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

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.

I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

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.

When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

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So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

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