Endgame Quotes

Endgame Quote of the day

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

Crazy people always think they're perfectly sane. It's what makes them so crazy