"He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess"

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Source : "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy". Book by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn (p. 81), 1965.

Siegbert Tarrasch

#Queens Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
“All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.”

Source : Source: beachcarolina.com
“Recognizing that we have the kind of blood we have because we have the kind of kidneys we have, we must acknowledge that our kidneys constitute the major foundation of our philosophical freedom. Only because they work the way they do has it become possible for us to have bones, muscles, glands and brains. Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidney is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.”
“In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.”
“I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.”
“Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.”
“My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.”

Source : "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.
“You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.”

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