Chess Quotes - Page 22

• Help your pieces so they can help you

  Paul Morphy

  Chess Pieces, Helping, Strategy

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• There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Issues, Mind, Doe

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• The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Art, Lying

  Garry Kasparov (2017). “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Moving, Games, Dubious

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• A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

  Oleg Romanishin

  Success, Winning, Self

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• Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

  Mark Taimanov

  Play, Elements, Opponents

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• The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

  Boris Spassky

  Men, Target, Pawns

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• Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Sacrifice, Presence Of Mind, Objectivity

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him if he can see the slightest chance of creating an attack. Yet sound strategy often demands that you submit to the opponent's will so as to strengthen your weaknesses and get rid of defects in your game.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Games, Creating, Weakness

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• The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Lasts, Next

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• The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Intellectual, Pastime

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• Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

  Bobby Fischer

  Ducks, Knowing, Judgement

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• Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always somebody worse.

  Israel Albert Horowitz

  Games, Matter

  Israel Albert Horowitz (1971). “All about chess”

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• It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Glasses, Jewels, Practice

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• Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Middle, Masters

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• A game is always won through a mistake.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Games

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• Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.

  Mikhail Tal

  Moving, Sacrifice, Stronger

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• Every move creates a weakness.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Moving, Weakness, Strategy

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• Chess is the only game greater than its players.

  Tim Rice

  Player, Games, Greater

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• If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Land, Soldier, Enemy

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• The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mean, Names, Special

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

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• An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

  Paul Keres

  Innovation, Needs, Strategy

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• A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.

  Reuben Fine

  Moving, Games, Strategy

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• The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

  Rumi

  Moving, Chess Pieces, Masters

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• Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Thinking, Games

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