Mahilig_sa_Chess

I am slow thinker...Chess is my favorite game. I started playing chess when I was 9 yrs old.. "By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves." "Time trouble is blunder time" "There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation." "I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else." "Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess." "The blunders and mistakes are all there on the board, waiting to be made."