Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Larry Evans
Born: March 22, 1932
Died: November 15, 2010 (aged 78)
Bio: Larry Melvyn Evans was an American chess grandmaster, author, and journalist. He won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times.
Known for:
- New ideas in chess (1958)
- WHAT'S THE BEST MOVE? (1973)
- How Good Is Your Chess? (2004)
- This Crazy World of Chess (2007)







