Chess Quotes - Page 20

• No one ever won a game by resigning.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Inspirational, Sports, Winning

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• Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

  Terry Pratchett

  Queens, Fate, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Player, Issues, Intuition

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• The pawn is the soul of chess.

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Soul, Pawns

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• At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.

  Larry Christiansen

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

  Reuben Fine

  Chess Game, Bombers, Tactics

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• When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

  Mikhail Tal

  Moving, Games, Chess Game

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• I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Eight, Principles, Study

  Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and ‎Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.

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• I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Witty, World

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• All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

  Bobby Fischer

  Moving, Chess Game, Psychology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

  Eric Bogosian

  Ensemble, Hard

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• Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Games, Ends, Pursuit

  Indianapolis v. Chase Nat'l Bank, 314 U.S. 63, 69, 1941.

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• White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Moving, Thinking, White

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• Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Winning, Simple, Play

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• I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Play, Steps, Possibility

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

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• You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Moving, Fighting

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• It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Games, Well Known, Ends

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• Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

  Richard Reti

  Fighting, Games, Chess Game

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• When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Long Distance Relationship, Distance Love, Love And Distance

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• The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess Game, Chess Pieces, Tactics

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• Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  World, States, Flux

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• Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

  Akiba Rubinstein

  Chess Pieces, Black, Tonight

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• The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Law, Choices

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.77, SCB Distributors

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• With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Opposites, Bishops, Pieces

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• There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Disgusting, Beaten

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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