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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Near the end of Round Eight of the Second Sinquefield Cup 2014, Caruana was pressing Carlsen for his eighth win in a row. Levon Aronian had just drawn his game and was being interviewed by Maurice Ashley:
Maurice: This is going to be remembered forever if he (Caruana) does achieve even more in this tournament. As a historian and fan of chess, how do you appreciate his performance?
Levon: At least the attention will be taken from my terrible play here! (everyone laughs)
"I just flew in from Reykjavik. Boy are my arms tired."
- Henny Youngman (*if* he'd had a chance to play Fischer in a movie)
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose! - Tartakower
A wealthy president is the best protection against corruption
From an article on Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of September 18, 2014:
When the Soviet Union fell apart, Kirsan, who grew up in Southern Russian, took over a network of different companies and became a rich man. Just how he came into the money is unclear.
In 1993 the people elected him president of the Autonomous Republic of Kalymykia. His former campaign slogan, “a wealthy president is the best protection against corruption” fit him two years later when he took over the presidency of FIDE.
2012 Mississauga Chess Club Champion Erwin Casareno: "Chess should be a tool to make friends, not enemies."
"You should give it a try, Nigel."
- Peter McKillop, 2014
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
If a chess player is wearing the same clothes every day there are several likely explanations: he may have lost his suitcase on the way to the tournament, he may have brought no other clothes anyway, or he keeps putting on the same clothes out of superstition, as they had served him well in the games he played so far. A famous example of a player being attached to a piece of clothing is Vasily Ivanchuk.
The Ukrainian’s fondness for his favourite Real Madrid training jacket even drove the organizers in Linares to despair when he started to wear it on stage (and he was quickly asked never to do that again). Therefore, we tried to imagine his sadness when he lost this jacket during the robbery in Brazil at the end of the first leg of the Sao Paulo/Bilbao Grand Slam Final last year (2011), and were surprised when he explained to us in Bilbao that it was no big deal.
But apparently it still is his lucky jacket. When much to our surprise we saw him wear it in the players’ hotel in Wijk aan Zee, he confirmed that almost by a miracle, it had not been in the suitcase that had been stolen in Brazil. What’s more, unknown to the organizers or the arbiters he was wearing it in the playing hall during the Tata Steel tournament almost every day, carefully hidden underneath another more formal jacket! We were not sure of this, but when we expressed our suspicions on the final day, Ivanchuk shrugged, unbuttoned the upper jacket and lo and behold!
From New In Chess, 2012 #2, p. 7
(DJtG? – a photo accompanies the anecdote)
I hope you don't mind me inserting a non-chess quote, Wayne, but I just encountered during these late night/early morning hours a profound quote on 'sadness' by the great Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector, and your post was our site's first hit for a 'sadness' search (:
"And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury."
Have you ever thought how chess will be mentioned in your obituary?
My only defence for bringing up this morbid topic is that Halloween was just a week ago.
This from CHESS magazine, June 1999, page 15:
An enigmatic tribute to the late Judge Michael Argyle, culled from The Guardian’s website:
“His private pursuits were not typical of the judiciary. He was keen on boxing and chess, and was certainly the only Old Bailey veteran who kept whippets.”
In general, what a chess player needs has always been the same, with a love of chess the main requirement. Moreover, it has to be loved naturally, with passion, the way people love art, drawing and music. That passion possesses you and seeps into you. I still look at chess with the eyes of a child.
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Wednesday, 7th January, 2015, 04:35 PM.
Reason: photo
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
While this might be a droll tennis quote, I feel that Hikaru Nakamura will someday be able to apply it when he finally beats Magnus Carlsen at a game of classical chess (currently standing at 0 wins, 10 losses, and 15 draws).
The world's #3 ranked tennis player in 1978, Vitas Gerulaitus, after finally beating Jimmy Connors at the Janurary 1980 Masters after 16 consecutive losses to his nemesis, came up with this classic:
"And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row."
And now Tomas Berdych can add, "Nobody beats Tomas Berdych 18 times in a row." after finally beating Rafael Nadal today in the Australian Open, ending a wretched 0 and 17 record (:
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