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• In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Luck, Weakness

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• For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Lessons, Want

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• The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

  Alexander Kotov

  Attitude, Learning, Self

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• It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Kings, Bishops, Pawns

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• The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Squares, Essentials

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• A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Real, Character, Sacrifice

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• Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

  Michael Stean

  Moving, People, Opening

  Michael Stean (2003). “Simple Chess”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Play, Principles, Bishops

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.

  Alexander Morozevich

  Reality, Practice, Common

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• As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Sacrifice, Praise, Possibility

  Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books

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• When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mean, Kids, Years

  "Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". CNN-IBN interview, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

  Max Euwe

  Art, Home, Men

  "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld (p. 180), 1956.

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• White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  White, Pawns, Chess Pawns

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• The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

  Boris Spassky

  Mobility, Pawns, Ability

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• I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Opportunity, Play, Pawns

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• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Running, Player, Risk

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• It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI era." With all due respect, they were wrong.

  Garry Kasparov

  Strong, Father, Player

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Spirit, Losing, Disaster

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• Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really improves your chess vision.

  Levon Aronian

  Moving, Healthy, Vision

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• Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

  Budd Schulberg

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• Football is like chess, only without the dice.

  Lukas Podolski

  Football, Dice

  "German Football's Greatest Sayings" by David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. June 10, 2008.

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• Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

  Trevanian

  Philosophy, Western, Accounting

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.165, Broadway Books

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• You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

  Mark Lawrence

  Queens, Winning, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.20, Penguin

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• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Cucumbers, Should

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• Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

  Eloisa James

  Games, Making Love, World

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