Chess Quotes - Page 31

• Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

  Jan Timman

  Memories, Forever, Study

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• There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Past, Player, Games

  "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Winning, Men, Expression

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• The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Ideas, Political

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• I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

  Garry Kasparov

  Style, Symbiosis, Fischer

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• I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Style

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• I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

  Susan Polgar

  Believe, Style, Universal

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• But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Games, Play, Perfection

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This game is now the most important to me. But of course I am not a computer and you cannot simply press a button, delete, and everything you want to forget disappears automatically. But if you want to play well, it's important to concentrate on the now.

  Vassily Ivanchuk

  Success, Games, Play

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• I think it's very natural to get nervous. I've usually got concerns about a specific thing in the opening which might worry me. I have to be relaxed and balanced emotionally and then I can concentrate on the moves during the game. Then things will be ok.

  Judit Polgar

  Success, Moving, Thinking

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• Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Winning, Impossible

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• Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.

  Mark Taimanov

  Success, Character, Two

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• Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

  Alexander Kotov

  Success, Moving, Player

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• But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Success, Opponents, Gains

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• Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

  Edmar Mednis

  Success, Play, Results

  Edmar Mednis (1983). “From the opening into the endgame”, Pergamon

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• The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Simple, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Battle, Energy

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• I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.

  Harry Golombek

  Success, Queens, Player

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• A great chess player always has a very good memory.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Success, Memories, Player

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• The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Success, Player, Battle

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• I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

  Walter Browne

  Success, Games, Best Effort

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• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Success, Reflection, Games

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• A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.

  David Bronstein

  Time, Strong, Heart

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• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Thinking, Games

  Interview With Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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