Chess Quotes - Page 9

• The hardest game to win is a won game

  Emanuel Lasker

  Success, Winning, Games

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• Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

  Bobby Fischer

  Giving, Opponents, Gains

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• I add status to any tournament I attend.

  Bobby Fischer

  Add, Tournaments

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• Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

  Hans Ree

  Funny Things, Games, Play

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• The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

  Garry Kasparov

  Player, Legends, Has Beens

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• The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Games, Giving

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, People, Want

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Sacrifice, Etc, Possibility

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• By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.

  Garry Kasparov

  Years, Games, Foundation

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• The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

  Larry Evans

  Beauty, Artist, Simplicity

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• Blitz chess kills your ideas.

  Bobby Fischer

  Ideas, Blitz

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• My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Book, Benefits, Homework

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• But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

  David Bronstein

  Play, People, Machines

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Play, Style

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

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• If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Training, Helping

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.

  Pal Benko

  Opportunity, Practice, Needs

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• If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!

  Oleg Romanishin

  Light, Cities, Interesting

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• Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Ideas, Black, Needs

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• Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Strategy, Logical

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• Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Risk, Innovation

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• Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting it will help you to get better results.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Play, Interesting

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• Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Gymnastics, Intellectual

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• Chess demands total concentration

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Demand, Concentration

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• There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

  H. G. Wells

  Remorse

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

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• Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Moving, Years, Variation

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