Chess Quotes - Page 24

• A good player is always lucky.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Success, Player, Lucky

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• You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

  Grigory Sanakoev

  Luxury, Liberty, Permit

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• To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Play, Skills

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• Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

  A. A. Milne

  Desire, Common

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.139, The Floating Press

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• I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Learning, Work Out

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• On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Practice, Sight, Preparation

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• No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Art, Truth, Games

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• Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.

  Alexey Suetin

  Mistake, Play, Routine

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• An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Faces, Facts, Amusing

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• The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Elements, Flaws, Reason

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• First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Player, Essence, Practice

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• Attack! Always Attack!

  Adolf Anderssen

  Strategy

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• I often play a move I know how to refute.

  Bent Larsen

  Moving, Play, Strategy

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• Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Careers, Challenges

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

  David Bronstein

  Games, Battle, Nerves

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• Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

  Che Guevara

  Mean, Intellect, Educate

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• The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Kings, Play, Numbers

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• You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens.

  Maurice Ashley

  Children, Reflection, Discipline

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Lying, Knights, Long

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• Chess will always be the master of us all.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Masters

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• I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Genius, Capablanca

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• Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Unique, Games, Play

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• Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.

  Gregor Piatigorsky

  Games, People, Pepsi

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• I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

  Albert Einstein

  Games, Intellectual, Spirit

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• A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fighting, Games, Chess Game

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