Chess Players Quotes - Page 3

• I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Average, Games

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• When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

  Arthur Koestler

  Stress, Player, Curves

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• A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

  Arthur Dean

  Giving Up, Player, Opposites

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• A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game

  Richard Reti

  Running, Queens, Winning

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• I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Genius, Chess

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• I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

  Lou Gerstner

  Player, Thinking, Looks

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• India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

  Judit Polgar

  Player, India, Chess

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• The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

  Lodewijk Prins

  Player, Chess, Common

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• The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Player, Two, Boards

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• Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

  Bobby Fischer

  Simple, Player, Games

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• The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Art, Lying

  Garry Kasparov (2017). “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played tournaments in numerous countries with mixed results. I wrote and published a book - La Défense Alekhine and translated two others from Russian. I taught chess in schools; I earned more money through chess than through literature.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Country, Book, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.

  Richard Reti

  Player, Mind, Gone

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• A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

  Bent Larsen

  Heart, Player, Chess

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• There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

  David Bronstein

  Heart, Player, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

  Boris Gelfand

  Lying, Home, Player

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• Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Chess

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• Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Player, Vices

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.642, Modern Library

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• The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

  Boris Spassky

  Success, Player, Games

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• Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

  James Gleick

  Player, Skills, Mad

  James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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• I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Sports, Player, Years

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Different, Chess

  "The (New) Greatest Chess Player Of All Time". Interview with Ryan McKee, www.askmen.com. December 10, 2012.

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• It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Sacrifice, Player

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• I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Mistake, Moving, Player

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• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Thinking, Games

  Interview With Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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