Michael Basman quotes
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“Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.”
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“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.”
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“Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant”
-- Michael Basman
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“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”
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“Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.”
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“The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.”
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“Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.”
Source : B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press
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“Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.”
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“The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.”
Source : Alexander Elder (2014). “The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons
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