Chess Quotes - Page 13

• In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Order, Games, Chess Game

  "Last Lectures". Book by Jose Raul Capablanca, 1966.

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• The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.

  Pal Benko

  Kings, Squares, Pieces

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• Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Effort, Creative

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• Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!

  Alexander Alekhine

  Mean, Thinking, Imagination

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• I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Book, Games, Purpose

  José Raúl Capablanca (1920). “My Chess Career”

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• They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

  Bobby Fischer

  Stupid, Years, Etc

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• A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Memories, Emotional, What If

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• Chess is not dominoes

  Garry Kasparov

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• There are no heroes in chess.

  Corry Evans

  Hero

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• All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

  George Koltanowski

  Games, Play, Masters

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• We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lessons, Should, Companion

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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• I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Moving, Irritation, Games

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• Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Brain, Tactics, Strategy

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

  David Bronstein

  Dream, Player, World

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• It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Morning, Mistake, Player

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• There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  School, Horizon, Higher

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

  Rudolf Spielmann

  Book, Games, Play

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• Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

  David Bronstein

  Success, Moving, Obvious

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• I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Believe, Engineering

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• The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this is a moral obligation. If the world of chess should remain deaf to its obligation, on the other hand, it would amount to an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of guilt.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Omission, Hands, Champion

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• It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Simple, Player, Trying

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

  Mikhail Tal

  Women, Knights, Fischer

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• Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Questions And Answers, Paper, Examination

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• I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.

  Garry Kasparov

  Believe, Feels, Stills

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• When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.

  Amy Pascal

  Team, Moving, Past

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