Jan Timman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half
-- Jan Timman

#Games #Variation #Half
I am still full of ambition.
-- Jan Timman

#Ambition #Stills
The more games I will play, the faster I will be back on a top spot in the world rankings.
-- Jan Timman

#Games #Play #World
Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.
-- Jan Timman

#Memories #Forever #Chess
The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.
-- Jan Timman

#Time #Moving #Half
When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ...
-- Jan Timman

#Player #Age #Chess

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.
After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
A well begun is half ended.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Jan Timman famous quotes

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