Chess Quotes - Page 33

• Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Surprise, Theory, Rationalism

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• The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.

  Jan Timman

  Time, Moving, Half

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• If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Thinking

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• Time trouble is blunder time.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Trouble, Blunders

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• If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Writing

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• Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

  Edmar Mednis

  Time, Want, Lost

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• Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Truth, Moving, Imagination

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

  Judit Polgar

  Women, Player, Careers

  "The Beauty of Chess Tricks" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Growing Up, Women, Thinking

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• There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

  Garry Kasparov

  Women, Competition, Example

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

  Garry Kasparov

  Women, Titles, Events

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.77, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.

  Jennifer Shahade

  Women, Events, World

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• I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

  Bobby Fischer

  Women, Moving, Knights

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• I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

  Susan Polgar

  Women, Hard Work, Goal

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• It's very important not to put pressure on a child. Make sure that she/he feels that whatever happens it's not the end of the world. If they cry after a loss that's normal, as adults also hate to lose. If they win a game you should make them feel very proud but make sure they know the next game will be another challenge.

  Judit Polgar

  Children, Hate, Loss

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• I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of a professional, without first completing their chess studies. Deficiencies in education and a lack of certain basic knowledge will tell sooner or later; they will bump their head on the ceiling and will no longer be able to climb up to the stars.

  Sergei Shipov

  Stars, Player, Able

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• When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.

  Jan Timman

  Player, Age, Should

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• I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

  Justin Bieber

  Team, School, People

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• Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Talent, Young, Existence

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• It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Sacrifice, Player

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• Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Player, Inexperience, Requirements

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• When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Example, Subjectivity

  "About Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth, Creativity, Telepathy and Artificial Intelligence". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Firstly, there no such person as Death.
  Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians.
  Third, he doesn't exist either.

  Neil Gaiman

  Death, Horse, White

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• All I ever want to do is just play chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want

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• If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

  Lennox Lewis

  Media, Angle, Knows

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