Chess Players Quotes - Page 4

• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• A great chess player always has a very good memory.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Success, Memories, Player

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• Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

  David Bronstein

  Success, Player, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

  Alison Gopnik

  Inspiring, Player, Years

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  Jerry Bridges

  Army, Winning, Player

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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• One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have to be able to criticize constructively. When you have someone who is always on your case and it's never good enough no matter how you win a game, it just brings you down, you lose confidence. And as a chess player you have to be confident, you have to believe in yourself.

  Hikaru Nakamura

  Believe, Thinking, Winning

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• To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

  David Bronstein

  Dream, Player, World

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• I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

  Lance Henriksen

  Player, Psychics, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

  Joseph Heller

  Player, Games, Interesting

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Player, Champion, Chess

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• It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Player, Class, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Player, Quality

  Pierre Cabanne, Marcel Duchamp (1971). “Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp”, Studio

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• The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant. But never before has there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already he has managed to alienate and offend almost everybody in the chess world. That includes officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and anybody who might be in a position to help him in his career.

  Israel Albert Horowitz

  Player, Vanity, Careers

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• There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived

  Lisa Lane

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

  Frank Brady

  Pride, Player, Mind

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• The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Player, Games

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• Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Psychology, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Player, Chess

  "Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company".

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• The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Struggle, Player, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

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• Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Always Trying, Castles

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• For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Artist, Player, Chess

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism.

  Pat Robertson

  Player, Keys, Feminism

  "The 700 Club". TV series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Basketball, Player, Numbers

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Dog, Player, Playing Chess

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