Chess Quotes - Page 16

• Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

  Mike Goodall

  Fischer

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• It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.

  Garry Kasparov

  Team, Intelligent, Blue

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

  Garry Kasparov

  Cousin, Fate, Technology

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly. "No, thank you," he would say and the fight would go on and on and on.

  Lubomir Kavalek

  Fighting, Offering, Energy

  "Chess Great Bent Larsen Dies" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2010.

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• The king is a strong piece - use it !

  Reuben Fine

  Strong, Kings, Use

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• A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Knights, Pawns, Chess Pawns

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• No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

  Richard Reti

  Ease, Capablanca, Endgame

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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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• Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Looks, Nursery, Humour

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• It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

  A. A. Milne

  Winning, Men, Games

  1919 Not That It Matters.

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• It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

  Garry Kasparov

  Imagine, Difficult

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• The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

  David Bronstein

  Thinking, Essence

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• Life's too short for chess.

  Henry James Byron

  Life, Humorous, Chess Game

  1874 Our Boys.

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• I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Believe, Player, Creating

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

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• Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Kings, Opponents, Clarity

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

  Lodewijk Prins

  Player, Chess Players, Common

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• Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

  Alfred Binet

  Passion, Player, Ideas

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• There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

  Bobby Fischer

  Nice, Player, Chess Game

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• Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

  Boris Spassky

  Literature, Fischer, Enormous

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• Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

  William Ewart Napier

  Long, Faults, Life Is

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• Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Believe, Player, Games

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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, Kind

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• I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

  Mark Twain

  Moving, Games, Lasts

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, Penguin

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• For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Art, Self, Expression

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

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• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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