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I have developed a rough method for a preliminary evaluation of rook endings. For each favourable element, such as an extra pawn, spatial advantage, the more-active rook, or an important weakness in the enemy's camp, one point is awarded. If the difference between the two sides is one point the position is clearly better but not necessarily winning. With the exception of some extreme cases a score of 2-0 or 3-1 should guarantee a win. Mihail Marin, Learn From The Legends
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There are said to be two ways of improving as a chess player - by accumulating knowledge and by working on your shortcomings. For beginners, the acquisition of information is more important. For more experienced players, who already possess a solid theoretical grounding, efforts to eradicate a range of characteristic mistakes become no less important. Vladimir Popov, Chess Lessons
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When your head is spinning with success, that is the time when the blunders occur. So try to develop the rule for yourself that when you seem to be getting close to a win, be on the lookout. Alexander Kotov, Think Like A Grandmaster
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Don't attack unless you have some tangible superiority, either in the stronger working of your pieces, or in longer reach. If you do, the reaction will place your army in a critical position, and the inevitable counterattack will find you in disorder. Emanuel Lasker,  Common Sense In Chess
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Under normal circumstances in the Sicilian, White will attack on the kingside and Black on the queenside. David Levy & Kevin O'Connell, How To Play The Sicilian Defence
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The reason why the Colle is so popular with club players, and even some elite players, such as Artur Yusupov, is that it is easy to get out of the opening with a reasonable game without worrying about the latest tricks and traps. Gary Lane, British Chess Magazine
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In opposite-coloured bishop positions the rule is almost always the same: you want your 'bad' pawns, the ones you have to defend or restrain the opponent's pawns with, on the squares of your own bishop, and your 'good' pawns, the ones which protect each other or which form a majority you aim to advance, on the squares of your opponent's bishop, both so that they restrain the bishop and so that they are harder for him to blockade. John Cox, The Berlin Wall
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