Comprehensive Chess Endings

Famous quotes containing the words chess and/or endings:

    “The trick, which requires the combined skills of a tightrope walker and a cordon bleu chef frying a plain egg, is to take your [preteen] daughter seriously without taking everything she says and does every minute seriously.”
    —Stella Chess (20th century)

    “Logic and hope fade somewhat by thirty-six, when endings seem more like clear warnings than useful experience.”
    —Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 2 (1980)