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Sep-04-08 | | RandomVisitor: Quotes from Simple Chess:
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzesz4a6/... |
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Sep-04-11 | | BobCrisp: Chess is a simple game made difficult by fools. And vice versa. |
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Sep-04-11 | | Llawdogg: Happy 58th Birthday! |
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Oct-02-11 | | Everett: <whiteshark: <Simple Chess> If it's simple, why the book? :D> If you're smart, why play stupid? |
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Dec-24-11 | | whiteshark: A statist will always choose complexity over simplicity. But you already knew that. |
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Dec-24-11 | | JoergWalter: Quote of the day:
<Where are their new objectives? If each player is capable of quick development, castling, and of not blundering any pieces away, what is there to separate the two sides?> The different colours? |
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Dec-24-11 | | Cibator: "Chess is not a simple game"
- M F Stean |
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Dec-25-11 | | JoergWalter: not to be misunderstood, I like Stean's little book "Simple chess". First sentence in the introduction:
<Don't be deceived by the title-chess is not a simple game-such a claim would be misleading to say the least-but that does not mean that we must bear the full brunt of its difficulty.> Why not simply find a better title? |
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Oct-03-12
 | | GrahamClayton: <jahhaj>It seems accountancy paid better than professional chess. <jahhaj>,
Stean himself said that towards the end of his chess career, he was spending more time analysing games rather than playing them. His knowledge of structured analysis fits in well with taxation accountancy. Stean works with Baker Tilly: http://www.bakertilly.co.uk/contact... |
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Sep-04-13 | | waustad: Welcome to sexigenarianism! I'm not sure of the spelling, but I'll go with that one. |
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Sep-04-13
 | | offramp: "The winner of the first point is the loser of the last." - Michael Stean |
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Sep-04-13 | | RedShield: <Why not simply find a better title?> Why not sell fewer copies? |
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Dec-03-13
 | | Penguincw: ♔ Quote of the Day ♔
< "Where are their new objectives? If each player is capable of quick development, castling, and of not blundering any pieces away, what is there to separate the two sides?" > -Michael Stean
EVENTUALLY blundering pieces away. |
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May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration> - Michael Stean. |
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May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them> - Michael Stean. |
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May-10-15
 | | perfidious: One is tempted to speculate that Stean was referring to the Sicilian Najdorf in the above quote. |
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May-10-15 | | TheFocus: Ruy Lopez, actually. |
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May-10-15
 | | perfidious: That would have got my vote for second choice. |
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May-12-15 | | TheFocus: <The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the pawn structure> - Michael Stean. |
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May-12-15 | | TheFocus: <The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration> - Michael Stean. |
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Oct-18-16 | | whiteshark: Quote of the Day
< Where are their new objectives? If each player is capable of quick development, castling, and of not blundering any pieces away, what is there to separate the two sides? > -- Michael Stean
In what connection?
Answers? |
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Sep-04-17 | | PJs Studio: These are some sweet quotes. I bet he is/was a hell of a coach |
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Aug-25-18
 | | Retireborn: Looking for the complete score of the game Stean-A.Herzog, played Greifensee 1972 according John Nunn's book. I take that to be a junior tournament. Very grateful if anybody has or can point me to it. |
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Jun-04-20 | | Nosnibor: Stean shared first place with Hug in the St Jean de Mouts Master Tournament in July 1973 scoring 7/10.3rd equal were Toth and Preissmann 6.5,5th equal Ghitescu and Hartoch 6,7th Puhm 5,8th Kouatly 4,9th Gereben 3.5, 10th Goldenberg 2.5 11th Wolfgang Schmid 1. |
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Oct-31-21 | | Albertan: Meet the Black schoolboy aged just twelve who beat an International Chess Grandmaster: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-ne... |
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