Chess Quotes - Page 19

• I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Team, Chess Game

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• There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

  Mikhail Tal

  Sacrifice, Chess Game, Two

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• A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Men, Player

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

  Kurt Richter

  Mistake, Silly

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• A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

  Bent Larsen

  Kings, Long, Routine

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• Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being the novelty, this move is also very strong. It is most probably that Radjabov found this natural improvement over the board, as he spend more than an hour, if I am not mistaken. But it could be that he was just trying to remember his own analysis (can you imagine how much he has to remember??).

  Mihail Marin

  Strong, Moving, Play

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• I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Children, School, Thinking

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  Agency, Waste, Advertising

  Of chess. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Fighting, Chess Pieces

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• There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Curse, Remorse

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• The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Kings, Fighting, Hands

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• I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Hero, People, Different

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• Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.

  Fred Reinfeld

  Causes, Losing, Defeat

  Fred Reinfeld (1961). “Great Short Games of the Chess Masters”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

  Sergey Belavenets

  Moving, Benefits, Gains

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• By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Playing Chess, Firsts

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• I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Simple, Answers

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• Chess is a beautiful mistress.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Mistress

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• It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

  Douglass North

  Jobs, Playing Chess, Firsts

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• A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game

  Richard Reti

  Running, Queens, Winning

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• Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Kings, Faces, Checks

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• Life's to short for chess.

  Henry James Byron

  Life

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• Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

  Yasser Seirawan

  Success, Player, Games

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• It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned. Every player knows that all (or almost all) combinations arise from a recollection of familiar elements.

  Richard Reti

  Art, Mistake, Player

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• Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cute, Humility, Winning

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• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Fighting, Impact

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