Quotes About Endgame

Bruce Pandolfini, Josh's original chess teacher, started their first class by taking him in reverse. The board was empty, except for three pieces in an endgame scenario: king and pawn against king.

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

Fans are always talking about endgame as though endgame has been chosen from minute 1. I don't know that you could talk to a single series creator that would say confidently 'Where I started is where I finished, and there was no way in hell I was going to stray from that path.' 'Dawson's' being the perfect example.

And in the end

He could see how this liberating condition could grow progressive. How in the face of an end game there was virtually no limit to what did not matter. Returned

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

Briskly aestheticizing politics, this predecessor of today's live-streaming militants outlined a likely endgame for a world in which, as Walter Benjamin wrote, the self-alienation of humankind 'has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order'.

This variation has to be played as dynamically as possible, not reduced to the defensive immobility you imposed. Its aim is to queen a pawn - that's the essential threat. Without some compensation for the initial knight sacrifice, you face a losing endgame.