Chess Game Quotes - Page 2

• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

  Mikhail Tal

  Mistake, Errors, Games

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• You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Motivation, Winning, Player

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• If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Playing Chess, Helping

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• I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Independent, Player, Games

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• I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, Games, Draws

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• For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

  Eduard Gufeld

  Player, Games, New Life

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• Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

  Alfred George Gardiner

  Memories, Blessed, Games

  Alfred George Gardiner (1917). “Pebbles on the shore”

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• You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Moving, Fighting

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• I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Frustration, Games, Chess Pieces

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

  Boris Spassky

  Winning, Play, Win Or Lose

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• Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

  Maurice Ashley

  Winning, Games, Guy

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• The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Player, Games

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• What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Games, Cost

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• A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game

  Richard Reti

  Running, Queens, Winning

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• I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, World, Prove It

  "Chess Digest Magazine", Volume 4, 1971.

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• Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

  Miguel Najdorf

  Fall, Squares, Chess Pieces

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• It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

  Mikhail Tal

  Loss, Play, Firsts

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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, Worry, Opponents

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• In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

  Isaac Kashdan

  Queens, Hands, Fischer

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• When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

  Mikhail Tal

  Moving, Games, Playing Chess

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• I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Winning, Games, Feelings

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• There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived

  Lisa Lane

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Games, Firsts

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• Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

  Yuri Balashov

  Chess Pieces, Opponents, Realizing

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