VICENT TREATISE

The oldest printed work on openings published in Spain in 1484. No more copies are known to exist.

Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles. Hans Ree
Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw. Judith Polgar
FT, 2014
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth Wilhelm Steinitz
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.” David Bronstein
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time. Bernard Shaw

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