Chess Quotes - Page 2

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  These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Moving, Learning, Heart

  Newsweek, May 26, 1980.

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• A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Games, Appreciate

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• Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

  Mikhail Tal

  Simple, Games, Chess Game

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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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• By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Art, Fighting, Delight

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Firsts, Language

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• I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Men, Feelings, Pity

  "Best Games of Chess".

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• To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

  David Bronstein

  Attitude, Mean, Games

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• The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mean, Process, Obstruction

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Book, Player, Glasses

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• Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Objectivity, Firsts, Teach

  "The Soviet School of Chess". Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.

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• If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.

  David Bronstein

  Mistake, Thinking, Annoyed

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• Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Art, Logic

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• A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Winning, Artistic, Horror

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• Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Games, Soul, Defense

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• The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

  Irving Chernev

  Success, Winning, Games

  Irving Chernev (1973). “The chess companion: a merry collection of tales of chess and its players, together with a cornucopia of games, problems, epigrams & advice, topped off with the greatest game of chess ever played”, Simon & Schuster

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• Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Believe, Practice, Study

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• My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Style, Humour

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• First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Next, Firsts, Strategy

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• Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.

  Simen Agdestein

  Real, Passion, Fate

  Simen Agdestein (2013). “How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games”, p.57, New In Chess

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• Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Success, Player, Thinking

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• The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Winning, Play

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• We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

  Boris Spassky

  Theatre, Cinema, Actors

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• We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

  Rudolf Spielmann

  Passion, Sacrifice, Fascination

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