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• In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

  Alexander Kotov

  Tree, Analysis, Variation

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• The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.

  Alexander Kotov

  Training, Typical, Chess

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• In choosing an opening plan players think most of all of harmonious development for the pieces, but sometimes leave the development of the queen out of their considerations. Yet the Queen is the most valuable and important piece and the whole outcome can depend upon how successfully she plays her role.

  Alexander Kotov

  Queens, Player, Thinking

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• If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Writing

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• I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Learning, Work Out

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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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• The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.

  Alexander Kotov

  Teaching, Chess, Originality

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• If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Thinking

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• The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Groups, Three

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• My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

  Alexander Kotov

  Hard Work, Learning, Achievement

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• Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

  Alexander Kotov

  Opportunity, Victory, Chess

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• Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Two, Boards

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• Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.

  Alexander Kotov

  Queens, School, Independent

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