Efim Geller quotes
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“The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.”
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“It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position”
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“From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.”
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“It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.”
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“Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.”
-- Efim Geller
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.
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“I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.”
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“Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.”
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Source : "Who is Abdullah Ocalan?" by Beat Witschi, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2005.
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“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”
Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.
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“A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.”
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