Jan Hein Donner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

  • Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

  • 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'!

  • Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

  • 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.

  • Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

  • Chess is a matter of vanity.

  • The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…

  • I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances

  • He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

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