"Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame."

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Source : "How to Open a Chess Game". Book by Larry Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1974.

Lajos Portisch

#Tasks Quotes #Chess Quotes #Opening Quotes

“I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie,”
“You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

Source : FaceBook post by Brandon Mull from Feb 21, 2013
“God doesn't love you more when you obey, you experience Him more!”
“It wasn't about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.”
“I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.”
“I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
“In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."”

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