Pat: "But let's get back to my first question - how much book do I need to know?"
Noah: "The bare minimum is: You need to know the traps that come up in your openings."
Noah: "I'm not saying you should try to spring traps. But you do need to know how to avoid traps in the lines you play."
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"She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency." |
Raymond CHANDLER, The Long Goodbye, Chapter 24, final sentences. |