Quote of the day
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Paul Keres
Born: January 7, 1916
Died: June 5, 1975 (aged 59)
Bio: Paul Keres was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s.
Known for:
- Practical Chess Endings (1974)
- The Art of the Middle Game (1964)
- Grandmaster of chess
- Keres' best games of chess, 1931-1948 (1942)







