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The Moment of Zuke:
Critical Positions and
Pivotal Decisions for
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by David Rudel
author of Zuke 'Em

7 modules written just for Colle System Players. Over 150 practice problems accompany lessons written in Rudel's crystal-clear, inimitable style

Thematic Lessons
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decisions Colle Players
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Chess Quotations

Point and Counter-Point

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. – Siegbert Tarrasch

True, but it’s well to remember that losing at chess, like rejection, like Barry Manilow, has the power to make men unhappy. – Mike Franett

The hardest game to win is a won game. – Emanuel Lasker

Actually, the hardest game to win is a lost game. – Dave Regis

The hardest part of chess is winning a won game. – Frank Marshall

The hardest chess position to win is stalemate. – Bill Wall

The Queen's Gambit is like a piece of dead flesh kept overlong on ice… more the tool of a coward than an adventurer. – Tony Santasiere

The best initial move for white is 1.P-K4. – Franklin K. Young

After 1.e2-e4 White's game is in its last throes! – Julius Breyer

Best by test. – Bobby Fischer (on 1.e4)

Black's reply to 1.e4 with 1…e5 leaves him always trying to get into the game. – Howard Staunton

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes. – Howard Staunton

The best possible reply to the move of 1 e4. – Howard Staunton (on 1…c5)

What is the object of playing a gambit opening? To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing the game. – Siegbert Tarrasch

In a gambit, you give up a pawn for the sake of getting a lost game. – Samuel Boden

In the laboratory, gambits all test unfavorably; but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board. – William Napier

Chess is 99 percent tactics. – Richard Teichmann

Chess isn't 99% tactics, it's just that tactics takes up 99% of your time. – Dan Heisman

Chess is 99 percent calculation. – Andrew Soltis

The quality goes in before my name goes on. – Jeremy Silman

The quality doesn’t go in before the name goes on. – Jeremy Silman (on Eric Schiller's books)

The greatest mistake in chess is to overestimate your opponent. – Siegbert Tarrasch

There is really only one mistake in chess - underestimating your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. – Saviely Tartakower

Always check; it may be mate. – Al Horowitz

Refrain from useless checks. – Larry Evans

The King should not be checked to death, or it may escape alive. – William Pollock

Patzer sees check, patzer makes check. – Bobby Fischer

Life is too short for chess. – Henry J. Byron

Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. – William Napier

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. – Indian proverb

I might add that if a gnat studies in the right way, he may eventually become an elephant. – Nigel Davies

To a chess master, there is no such thing as an "obvious" move. Experience has shown repeatedly that wins or draws are thrown away by thoughtless play. Careful planning is the essence of chess strategy. Every move must be scrutinized with care. Each must be analyzed in the light of the plan under consideration. Nowhere is waste of time more severely punished than in chess. – Samuel Reshevsky

Long variation, wrong variation. – Bent Larsen

Castle early and often. – Rob Sillars

Only sissies castle. – Rob Sillars

Castle when you will, or if you must, but not when you can. – William Napier

So, what do we have now? Three tourists - Akopian, Movsesian and Nisipeanu. Due to the match between the first two - one tourist will travel to the semifinal. Great trip to Las Vegas and a good reason to visit Disneyland! Unpredictable and spontaneous Judith, who is always dangerous for her opponents and sometimes for herself. Two very strong players - Adams and Khalifman, both capable of upsetting any favorite. And on top of that, two main favorites of the event - Kramnik and Shirov. The possibility of a new match between them looks now quite feasible, though on the way to the final no victories are easy in the KO championship. – Garry Kasparov (on the 1999 FIDE championship tournament)

Since Las Vegas the word “tourist” was widely used by the chess press as my classification of all the participants. I hope (maybe in vain) that henceforth the “tourist” label won’t be branded outside the field it was intended! Using the Las Vegas scale we may classify the quarterfinals in New Delhi. Heavy favorites - 2: Anand and Shirov. 4 strong GMs: Khalifman, Topalov, Bareev, Tkachiev. Mickey Adams is hanging in-between these two groups. Young, very talented, unpredictable - Grischuk. Tourists: 0! – Garry Kasparov (on the 2000 FIDE championship tournament)

When a player decides to change his openings, it's a sign that he's growing up! – Viktor Korchnoi

The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth. In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful maneuvers of the position player. – Emanuel Lasker

Yeah, but I'm infected with the Peter Pan syndrome; I don't want to grow up!! Gambits forever!! – David Surratt

I'd rather have a pawn than a finger. – Reuben Fine

It all depends: which pawn and which finger? – Roman Dzindzichashvili