"In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated."

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Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

Leonid Shamkovich

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“She disapproved, but part of her seemed secretly to sympathize with the sickness. It was like she thought everybody had it, and the best you could do was to cover it up, and sometimes it would just come boiling out anyway. Then you had to point at it and condemn it, even though you knew you had it too.”
“He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.”
“Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.”
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

Source : "The price of libraries is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation" by Abigail Tarttelin, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.
“You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?" May as well milk the effort. "Yes, the hormonal carp was present." "Marshall!" "She blew me a new one, as you would say.""She ripped you a new one," I correct. "The word blow has an entirely different meaning. I suggest you remove it from your lexicon.”
“We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.”

Source : "African Anglicans Shun US Money Over Gay Policies". www.csmonitor.com. April 19, 2004.
“I've always been fond of acoustic music.”
“Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.”

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