Michael Basman quotes

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
-- Michael Basman

#Sports #Chess #Results

If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.
-- Michael Basman

#Sports #Games #Voice

Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant
-- Michael Basman

#Elephants #Worms #Turns

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

If you want different results, do not do the same things.

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.

The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.