Jeremy Silman famous quotes
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If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw
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Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified
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After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense, many players will have a vague idea of what you are talking about but nothing more. Even a fragmented understanding of these concepts will prove useful though, and eventually they will improve as these lessons are assimilated by repetition and example.
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The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.
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Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some money at chess, I could see him becoming a street person, shaking his fists at cars as they passed by his corner of the block. Isn't it preferable to have him in a self-sufficient position rather than as a liability of the state?
-- Jeremy Silman
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.
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The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.
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Chess is not only knowledge and logic
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Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
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As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.
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Combination is a soul of chess.
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You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
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During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
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