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In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light. -- Simon McBurney
I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth. -- Simon McBurney
Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life - the audience. -- Simon McBurney
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame. -- Lubomir Kavalek
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure -- Michael Stean
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. -- Samuel Beckett
The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. -- Lee Myung-bak
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. -- Pal Benko
I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames. -- Pal Benko
It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame. -- Mark Ruffalo
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon. -- Leonid Shamkovich
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca. -- Richard Reti
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame. -- Dawid Janowski
Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it. -- Ivanka Trump
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance. -- Paul Keres
In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part. -- Leonid Shamkovich
If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out. -- Richard Shelby
It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame. -- Samuel Reshevsky
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page. -- Steve Toltz
You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame. -- Andre Leon Talley
Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice. -- Pal Benko
Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated. -- Edmar Mednis
I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet. -- Carl Paladino
If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time. -- Alexander Kotov
The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another. -- Pal Benko
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience. -- Mikhail Botvinnik
After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived -- Edmar Mednis
When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame. -- Bashar al-Assad
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. -- Debra Messing
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above. -- Pal Benko
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness or slowness, but the employment of a basic endgame principle which is 'Do not hurry'. -- Alexander Kotov
Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues. -- David Miliband
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
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. -- Paul Keres
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. -- Helen Thomas
I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages. -- Graham Hawkes
The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. -- Simon McBurney
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? -- Terry Pratchett
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go. -- Ronda Rousey
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame. -- Steve Carell
In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace. -- Alan Dershowitz
Survival is the foundation of endurance; complete triumph is the endgame. -- Bohdi Sanders
Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup. -- James C. Collins
My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play. -- Vasily Smyslov
Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music. -- Tim Hecker
I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page. -- Steve Toltz
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame. -- Neil Young
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake. -- Pal Benko
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor. -- David Mitchell

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