Michael Stean famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure
-- Michael Stean

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The winner of the first point is the loser of the last.
-- Michael Stean

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The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.
-- Michael Stean

#Psychology #Might #Doe
Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.
-- Michael Stean

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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Michael Stean famous quotes

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