Chess Quotes - Page 5

• When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

  Efim Bogoljubov

  Winning, White, Black

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• The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

  David Bronstein

  Powerful, Moving, Next Move

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• Computers have changed the world of chess.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  World, Computer, Changed

  "Kramnik on health, plans - and computers". Interview with Frederic Friedel, en.chessbase.com. March 13, 2006.

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• A lot of the difference between an IM and GM is a seriousness to the game. The GM is willing to go through all this. He's willing to put up with anything. This shows his dedication. One other thing is the GMs superiority in tactics. For example Christiansen can find tactics in any position. If you're a GM you should be able to overpower the IM tactically. The GM will often blow out the IM in this area.

  Nick de Firmian

  Blow, Dedication, Games

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• Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess Game, Training, Mind

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• Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

  David Bronstein

  Mind, Battle, Bears

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• Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

  Miguel Najdorf

  Fall, Squares, Chess Game

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• One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Success, Play, Opponents

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• Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

  Reuben Fine

  Exercise, Games, Chess Game

  Reuben Fine (1948). “The World's a Chessboard”

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• In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

  David Bronstein

  Success, Opportunity, Strikes

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• Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

  Maurice Ashley

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

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• A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Pawns, Fortune, Fellows

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• By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Thorough Understanding, Typical, Tactics

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.

  Garry Kasparov

  Strong, Believe, Winning

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.81, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Learning, Intelligent, Player

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• Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. Given the opportunity, I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponent's thinking and, in so doing, unnerve him. So it is in business: One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Dog, Player, Playing Chess

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• In Kansas I have a chess school.

  Anatoly Karpov

  School, Kansas

  "Anatoly Karpov speaks his mind". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Combination is a soul of chess.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Soul, Combination

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• I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Playing Chess, Defence, Opening

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• Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

  Cecil Purdy

  Success, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

  Boris Spassky

  Attitude, Games, People

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