Chess Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

  Anna Kendrick

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "What Makes a Gentleman?". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Games, Way, Masters

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• I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Art, Responsibility, Accepting

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• A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.

  Alexander Morozevich

  Sports, Art, Struggle

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• Chess is one long regret.

  Stephen Leacock

  Regret, Long

  Stephen Leacock (1943). “Happy stories, just to laugh at”

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• Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul

  Al-Masudi

  Squares, Ties, Soul

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• Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms

  Karl A. Menninger

  War, Games, Play

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• It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

  Efim Geller

  Winning, Vulnerable, Fischer

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• Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

  Larry Evans

  Law, Fischer

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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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• Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

  Larry Evans

  Medicine, Giving, Taste

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• Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

  Jeremy Silman

  Mad, May, Fischer

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• I look one move ahead... the best!

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Moving, Looks, Moving Ahead

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• By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

  Garry Kasparov

  Champion, World, Gaps

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• The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Hard Work, Focus

  "Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer". Garry Kasparov's review of Diego Rasskin-Gutman's book "Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind" (2005), www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Different, Genius

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July, 6 2001.

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• People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

  Bobby Fischer

  Years, People, Fifteen

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• There's no one alive I can't beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Alive, Beats, I Can

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• When I was eleven, I just got good.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Eleven

  "My 60 Memorable Games". Book by Bobby Fischer, 1969.

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• You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

  Bobby Fischer

  Book, Memorization, Knows

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. January 27, 2002.

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

  Anatoly Karpov

  Player, Champion, Firsts

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• With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

  Burt Hochberg

  Player, Titles, Fischer

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• I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Player, Ideas, Genius

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• The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Triumph, Analysis, Movement

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