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In the opening, to play a usual sequence of moves and reach a standard position. For instance in the Panov attack of the Caro-Kann Defense, the position arisen is seen in the Queen’s Gambit Declined or the Nimzo-Indian Defence.

Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. Magnus Carlsen
2010
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’! Boris Spassky
I think I like chess. That’s the main reason that I’m able to play at a reasonably high level – that I really love chess. Always have and always will (smiles). It’s the best game in the world! Nigel Short
2016
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously. Mihail Tal
1969

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