thought this could add a little bit of insight and philosophy to the interested........maybe even some inspiration!!

"Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and i will prove to you that two of them are incorrect." - Emanuel Lasker, 2nd World Chess Champion (1868-1941)

"I see only one move ahead, but it is usually always the correct one." - Jose R. Capablanca, 3rd World Chess Champion

"There are only two styles of chess. The winning one and the losing one. There are two basic strategies as well......to simplify and to complicate." -Vladimir Kramnik, (current undisputed) World Chess Champion

"If you know your weakneses then you will be able to also correctly asses your stregths"

"There is no glory in surrender and no virtue in defeat"

"You are playing out of book huh? Go ahead- It's the collective knowledge of all the past Masters and chess community for the past 4 centuries as a whole against your miserable idea..."

(By: ZXB)

" If someone plays against the flow of the position, against the grain, they will be playing against chess a far greater opponent than myself."

(By: Joshua Waitzkin)