Viktor Korchnoi Quotes About Chess

• Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Chess

• No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Chess, Normal, Madness

• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Play, Boards, Opponents

• Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Skeletons, Coconuts, Chess

• Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Winning, Thinking, Chess

• The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Color, Games, Two

• All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Moving, Games, Dubious

• Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Success, Player, Thinking

• As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Mistake, Memorable, Games

• It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Morning, Mistake, Player

• Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Player, People, Three

• The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Elements, Chess, Flaws

• The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Time, Years, Chess

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