Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
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Chess is mental torture.
When in doubt -- play chess.
Life is too short for chess.
The older I grow, the more I value Pawns.
If drink is the curse of the working classes and work is the curse of the drinking classes then chess is the curse of the thinking classes.
On the chess-board lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.
The hardest game to win is a won game.
When you see a good move, look for a better one.
Without error there can be no brilliancy.
Chess is, above all, a fight.
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both bishops are developed.
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.
I'm a pirate. I'm my own captain.
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A friend can betray you, but an enemy will always stay the same.
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Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.
If ye can't trust a pirate, ye damn well can't trust a merchant either.
A pirate is for life, not just for Christmas.
Take what you can, give nothing back.
If ye thinks he be ready to sail a beauty, ye better be willin' to sink with her.
There comes a time in most men's lives where they feel the need to raise the Black Flag.
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