LOSE A TEMPO

Where a player makes a move and subsequently makes another move which he could have done in just one move instead of two. 1 e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d3 Be7 4.d4

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game! David Janowski
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess. Irving Chernev
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.” Alexander Alekhine
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong! Garry Kasparov
2017
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein

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