Mihail Marin quotes
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“The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved.”
-- Mihail Marin -
“Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being the novelty, this move is also very strong. It is most probably that Radjabov found this natural improvement over the board, as he spend more than an hour, if I am not mistaken. But it could be that he was just trying to remember his own analysis (can you imagine how much he has to remember??).”
-- Mihail Marin
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Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.”
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“The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.”
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“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”
Source : Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.
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