Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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)