Quotations
- "n order to improve your game you must study the endgame before anything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame." (Emphasis in original.) (Capablanca 1966:19)
- "... the endgame is as important as the opening and middlegame ... three of the five losses sustained by Bronstein in his drawn ... match with Botvinnik in 1951 were caused by weak endgame play." (Hooper & Whyld 1992)
- "Studying the opening is just memorizing moves and hoping for traps, but studying the endgame is chess." - Joshua Waitzkin
- "The hardest thing in chess is to win a won game." - Frank Marshall
- "If you want to win at chess, begin with the ending." - Irving Chernev
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“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
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