| Louis Albert Morphy - 1921 - 162 pages
...then added, with that rapid turn to the serious, of which almost every fine mind is somehow capable," It is no use struggling against him ; he is like a...machinery, which is sure to come to a certain conclusion". At another time, he remarked, "Nobody can hope to gain more than a game, now and then, from him". To... | |
| John Dizikes - 2002 - 374 pages
...believed that intense calculation most marked his play. Adolf Anderssen agreed with this estimate: "It is no use struggling against him; he is like a...piece of machinery, which is sure to come to a certain conclusion."27 And the English player Samuel Boden spoke of his diabolical steadiness. Like any artist,... | |
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