Chess Quotes - Page 32

• Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Opportunity, Player

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 14, 2017

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• I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Mistake, Moving, Player

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• I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

  Saffron Burrows

  Player, Scrabble, Infuriating

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• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Moving, Chess Pieces, Color

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group

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• We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Art, Opposites, Tactics

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• Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mean, World, Championship

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• For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Self, Play

  "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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• All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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• I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.

  Boris Gelfand

  Moving, Games, Style

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• I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Hate, Fighting, Winning

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• Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, World, Winner

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• The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

  Bobby Fischer

  Champion, World, Way

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• ... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Views, Giving, Laughing

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• All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought him into this world only two years after Kasparov.

  Garry Kasparov

  Fate, Years, Two

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• The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

  Mikhail Tal

  Dream, Thinking, Play

  Mikhail Tal (2011). “Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship”, p.9, SCB Distributors

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• In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Long, World

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• I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Might, Normal, Freak

  "Magnus Carlsen: The 19-Year-Old King of Chess" by Eben Harrell, content.time.com. December 25, 2009.

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• If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I
  believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

  Susan Polgar

  Women, Believe, Skills

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• Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Novelty, Internet

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• The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.

  Alexander Kotov

  Teaching, Originality, Charm

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• Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.

  Bent Larsen

  Practice, Example, Quotation Marks

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• Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Two, Three, Variation

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• Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.

  Garry Kasparov

  Witty, Secret, Dogma

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• Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.

  Mikhail Chigorin

  Player, Thinking, Trying

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• It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Common Sense, Variation, Theory

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