Why are you including the chess problems with the poems?
Because problems are the poetry of chess. They demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, harmony, conciseness, complexity, and splendid insincerity.
Vladimir Nabokov [interview:]
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A win by an unsound combination, however showy,
fills me with artistic horror
-Wilhelm Steinitz
Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move
-Chinese proverb
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine
-Spielmann
Chess is really ninety nine percent calculation
-Soltis
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