I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody
Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.
A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame. . . an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
Chess is a test of wills.
I was unlucky, like my country.
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'
You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.