Chess Game Quotes - Page 4

• In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Order, Games, Study

  "Last Lectures". Book by Jose Raul Capablanca, 1966.

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• Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

  Richard Reti

  Fighting, Games, Intellectual

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• I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Giving, Energy

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• It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

  Savielly Tartakower

  Sacrifice, Men, Tactics

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• Tactics flow from a superior position

  Bobby Fischer

  Tactics, Flow, Position

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• My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

  Bobby Fischer

  Mistake, Moving, Opponents

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• Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

  Yasser Seirawan

  Success, Player, Games

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• I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Team, Playing Chess

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• Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

  Zicheng Hong

  Spiritual, Player, Games

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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• No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Art, Truth, Games

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• I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Children, Character, Hands

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• Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Finals, Exam

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• If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

  Paul Banks

  Games, Cubicles, Six

  "Paul Banks and RZA On Their Banks & Steelz Album, Wu-Tang, and Chess". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2016.

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• The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Individual Differences, Games

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Destiny, Games

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• Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Games, Careers

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. October 21, 2011.

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• It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

  Jimmy Smits

  Motivational Sports, Games, Boxing

  "Interview with a dedicated Chess Parent in South Africa, Pearl Kander-Moodley". "Africa Chess Net" Interview, africachess.net. April 12, 2015.

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• When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

  Michael Birch

  Kids, Exercise, Thinking

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• I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Art, Blow

  "The Joy Luck Club". Book by Amy Tan, 1989.

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• No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Games, Names

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

  Ray Bradbury

  Hurt, Moving, Mean

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• Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Games, Chess Pieces, Battle

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.

  Katy Evans

  Kings, Games, Hug

  Katy Evans (2013). “Mine”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

  Junior Seau

  Football, Running, Team

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• No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

  Amar Bose

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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