Jeremy Silman Quotes

• 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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• The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.

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  Kings, Team, Games

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• Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some money at chess, I could see him becoming a street person, shaking his fists at cars as they passed by his corner of the block. Isn't it preferable to have him in a self-sufficient position rather than as a liability of the state?

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  Block, Self, Car

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• Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

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  Mad, May, Chess

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• After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense, many players will have a vague idea of what you are talking about but nothing more. Even a fragmented understanding of these concepts will prove useful though, and eventually they will improve as these lessons are assimilated by repetition and example.

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  Player, Talking, Ideas

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