Irving Chernev Quotes

• Every Chess master was once a beginner

  Irving Chernev

  Learning, Beginners, Playing Chess

  Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld (2013). “Winning Chess: Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic”, p.148, Pavilion Books

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• The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

  Irving Chernev

  Success, Winning, Games

  Irving Chernev (1973). “The chess companion: a merry collection of tales of chess and its players, together with a cornucopia of games, problems, epigrams & advice, topped off with the greatest game of chess ever played”, Simon & Schuster

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• Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

  Irving Chernev

  Moving, Winning, Play

  Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”

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• On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.

  Irving Chernev

  Justice, Triumph, Doe

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• If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

  Irving Chernev

  Queens, Kings, Men

  Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

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• Chess is not for the timid.

  Irving Chernev

  Chess

  Irving Chernev (1955). “1000 best short games of chess: a treasury of masterpieces in miniature”

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• The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

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  Pay, Compliment, Masters

  "The Chess Companion". Book by Irving Chernev, 1970.

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• The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

  Irving Chernev

  Moving, White, Chess

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