J. principles II

In mathematics if you make a mistake you can start over. In chess,
if you make a mistake you lose the game.

Boris Spassky- Chess is like life
Bobby Fischer- Chess is life

#1
"Life is chess."

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy- Tarrasch
Chess is as much a mystery as women- Purdy

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent- Smyslov

I do not play chess- I fight at chess.
Alexander Alekhine

#2
“I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.” David Janowski

Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician,
and the endgame like a machine- Rudolf Spielmann

#2
“Winning isn't everything . . but losing is nothing.” Edmar Mednis

When I have White, I win because I am White; when I have Black,
I win because I am- Bogolyubov

#1
“No one ever won a game by resigning.” Savielly Tartakower

In life, the rules dictate what is not allowed. In mathematics, the rules prescribe what is allowed.

#2
“On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not last long.” Emanuel Lasker

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.
Bobby Fischer

#3
“When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time
to panic.”
John van der Wiel

Win with grace, lose with dignity! Susan Polgar

#1
“Play to win.”

Give no quarter and ask for none.

“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”

The object of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated,
but to make complicated things simple.

“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.”
Plato

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility- Albert Einstein

“God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!” William Blake

The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination- Thomas Hill

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
Albert Einstein

Cheers Tom!

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

See you Nolan!

Cheers Jacques!

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