Chess Quotes

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  Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Sports, Art, Board Games

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• In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

  Edmar Mednis

  Success, Brave, Earth

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• Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

  Bobby Fischer

  Psychology, Facts, Should

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• Good positions don't win games, good moves do

  Gerald Abrahams

  Moving, Winning, Games

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• When you see a good move, look for a better one.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Inspirational, Sports, Moving

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• Win with grace, lose with dignity!

  Susan Polgar

  Winning, Grace, Losing

  Susan Polgar, Douglas Goldstein (2014). “Rich As A King: How the Wisdom of Chess Can Make You a Grandmaster of Investing”, p.224, Morgan James Publishing

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• Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Culture, Decline, Ifs

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• Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Loss, Keys

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Every Chess master was once a beginner

  Irving Chernev

  Learning, Beginners, Playing Chess

  Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld (2013). “Winning Chess: Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic”, p.148, Pavilion Books

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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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• Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

  Bent Larsen

  Games, Drawing, Should Have

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• The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Success, Believe, Hard Work

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• Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Book, Memorization, Variation

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• The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Bishops

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• By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Assessment, Play, Trying

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• If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Games, Tragedy

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• The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Occupation, Operations, Files

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• Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

  E. M. Forster

  Character, House, Fruit

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• Chess is not only knowledge and logic

  Alexander Alekhine

  Logic

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• For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Games, Too Much, Serious

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• I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Believe, True Beauty, Demand

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• To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Knights, Stronger, Bishops

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Dark, Squares

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• Chess is the art of analysis.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Art, Analysis

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

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• Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

  Vladimir Putin

  Men, Clear, Wiser

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