Chess Players Quotes - Page 5

• ... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Country, Player, Availability

  "King Ludd is still dead". www.koreatimes.co.kr. October 11, 2012.

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  Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Player, Analysis, Chess

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• Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Opportunity, Player, Training

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• I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.

  Humpy Koneru

  Exercise, Player, Training

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• Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Player, Emotional, Giving

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• My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Father, Player, Chess

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• As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

  Levon Aronian

  Player, Psychology, Feelings

  "Aronian: 'I have a lot of blood in my brain'". Interview with Christian Schwager and Markus Lotter, November 20, 2008.

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• Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

  Andrew Soltis

  Player, Genius, Chess

  "Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess". Book by Harry Golombek, 1977.

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• Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

  Anne Bronte

  Player, Chess, Company

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. XXXIII : Two Evenings; Helen to Walter, 1848.

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• Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Moving, Science, Player

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• Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Mad, Imagination

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Moving, Player, Games

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• The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Chinese, Argentina

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Different, Use

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• It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.

  Bobby Fischer

  Running, Kids, Player

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• All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Player, Games, Chess

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Character, Player, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Player, Games, Chess

  "Obama Is Like a Chess Player". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2009.

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• Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

  Ralph Charell

  Independent, Player, Thinking

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• Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Strong, Kids, Player

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• The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

  Boris Spassky

  Player, Unions, Chess

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• I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

  Maurice Ashley

  Player, Thinking, Chess

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• For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

  Eduard Gufeld

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

  Kate Chopin

  Smile, Clever, Eye

  Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa Harad (2004). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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