Chess Quotes - Page 3

• That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

  Bobby Fischer

  Learning, Chess Game, Next Day

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• Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

  Max Euwe

  Sports, Games, Achievement

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• While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Player, Chess Players

  "Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company".

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• I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Moving, Chess Game

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• The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

  Boris Spassky

  Success, Player, Games

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• The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reflection, Games, Draught

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

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• Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mistake, Thinking, Important

  "Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting'". SPIEGEL Interview with Ansbert Kneip,Maik Großekathöfer, en.chessbase.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Psychology, Characteristics

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Kings, Cat, Games

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• He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Queens, Giving Up, Chess Game

  "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy". Book by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn (p. 81), 1965.

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• Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Struggle, Competition, Events

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• In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop

  Vlastimil Hort

  Knights, Stronger, Bishops

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• I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Character, Player, Personality

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Chess is a cure for headaches.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Headache, Cures

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• A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

  Savielly Tartakower

  Believe, Games, Chess Game

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• There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Loses

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• In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Order, Games, Chess Game

  "Last Lectures". Book by Jose Raul Capablanca, 1966.

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• Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

  Reuben Fine

  Men, Two, Conflict

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• I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

  Emanuel Lasker

  Knights, Law, Principles

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

  Mikhail Tal

  Dark, Psychology, Opponents

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• It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Book, Play, Interesting

  Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Motivation, Winning, Player

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• When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

  Aristotle

  Lonely, War, Play

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  Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Player, Analysis, Form

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• Without error there can be no brilliancy

  Emanuel Lasker

  Beauty, Errors

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