Chess Quotes - Page 25

• Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Men, Like Love

  The Game of Chess ch. 9 (1931)

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• When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

  John van der Wiel

  Panic, Humour, Knows

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• On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too thin, too puny for such an end. Reti's explanations, wherever they are concerned with an analysis which covers a few moves, are correct and praiseworthy. But when he abandons the foundations of analysis in order to draw too bold, too general a conclusion, his arguments prove to be mistaken.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Order, Games

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Chess Game, People

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. June 27, 1999.

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• In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

  Bent Larsen

  Interesting, Variation, Opinion

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• Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and a very small portion of accumulated knowledge infused by other human beings. So in chess we can compare these two incompatible things and probably make projections into our future. Is there danger that the human mind will be overshadowed by the power of computers, or we can still survive?

  Garry Kasparov

  Creativity, Unique, Two

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• The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism.

  Pat Robertson

  Player, Keys, Feminism

  "The 700 Club". TV series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Time, Moving, Games

  Samuel Reshevsky (1948). “Reshevsky's best games of chess: (Formerly titled: Reshevsky on chess)”, Dover Publications

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• The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Success, Character, Winning

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• Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Winning, Challenges

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• Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Effort, Endeavour, Results

  "Lasker's Manual of Chess". Book by Emanuel Lasker, Published in New York: Dover, p. 337, 1960.

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• The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

  Bobby Fischer

  Hands, Black, Example

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• If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.

  Neil McDonald

  Kings, Sacrifice, Games

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• I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -

  Alexander Kotov

  Beauty, Thinking, Player

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• My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

  Alexandra Kosteniuk

  Dad, Army, Things In Life

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• Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

  Garry Kasparov

  Psychology, Brutal

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.81, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Games, Play, Long

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• Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Depth, Well Known, Wells

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• After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.

  Alexander Kotov

  Sacrifice, Views, Variation

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• Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

  Michael Basman

  Sports, Doldrums, Results

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• The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved.

  Mihail Marin

  Moving, Games, Looks

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• I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

  Vlastimil Hort

  Believe, Games, Chess Game

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• There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.

  Grigory Sanakoev

  Winning, Play, Impossible

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• The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fate, Games, Drawing

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• ...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

  Jon Speelman

  Position, Initials

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