Chess Quotes - Page 4

• The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Inspirational, Beauty, Sports

  "Nimzovich the Hypermodern". Book by Fred Reinfeld, 1948.

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• When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

  Arthur Koestler

  Stress, Player, Curves

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• To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

  Savielly Tartakower

  Sacrifice, Games, Chess Game

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• In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

  Mikhail Tal

  Games, Feelings, Able

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• Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Training

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• Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

  Garry Kasparov

  Truth, Style, Heritage

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• My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.

  Joseph Henry Blackburne

  Glasses, Opponents, Humour

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• I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

  Reuben Fine

  Pawns, Fingers

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• Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Games, Chess Game, Worry

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• Chess is a matter of daily training.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Training, Matter

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• Life is too short for chess.

  Lord Byron

  Life Is Too Short, Chess Game, Life It Too Short

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• For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable

  Heinrich Fraenkel

  Drug, World

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• Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

  Bobby Fischer

  Crush, War, Chess Game

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• Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

  Garry Kasparov

  Character, Player, Psychology

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want, Playing Chess

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• Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

  Max Euwe

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw

  Jeremy Silman

  Psychology, Suffering, Opponents

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• In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Games, Chess Game

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• For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

  Garry Kasparov

  Age, Tongue, Immersion

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

  Bobby Fischer

  Learning, Games, Chess Game

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• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

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• The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.

  Arpad Elo

  Player, Wind, Water

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• Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

  Mikhail Tal

  Sacrifice, Sound, Mines

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• First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Success, Player, Games

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• Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mind, Gymnasiums

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