Chess Quotes - Page 10

• Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

  Robert Hubner

  Learning

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• When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.

  Wilhelm Liebknecht

  Games, Causes, Losing

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• What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

  Ben Kingsley

  Art, Fun, Thinking

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• My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mistake, Choices, Simplicity

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Pawns

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Games, Giving

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• The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, World, Playing Chess

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

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• Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

  Jamie Murphy

  Children, Nursery, Mathematics

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• Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.

  Richard Reti

  Player, Knights, Games

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov

  Torture

  Independent on Sunday, November 1995.

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• Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

  Dan Heisman

  Games, Losing

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• They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Player, Men

  "Portrait of a genius as a young chess master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, harpers.org. January 1962.

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• Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Choices, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Sports, Violent

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.107, U of Minnesota Press

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• Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

  Garry Kasparov

  People, Everyday, Typical

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• I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Chess Game, World

  "Chess Digest Magazine", Volume 4, 1971.

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• Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, Chess Game, Losing

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• I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Play, People

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• All my games are real

  Bobby Fischer

  Real, Games

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• The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Player, Games

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• There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived

  Lisa Lane

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

  Mikhail Chigorin

  Chess Game, Poor, Plans

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• We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Games, Culprit, Humour

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• Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Games, Impossible

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• I still hope to kill Fischer

  Boris Spassky

  Fischer, Stills

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