Chess Game Quotes - Page 2

• Life is too short for chess.

  Lord Byron

  Life Is Too Short, Life It Too Short, Life's Too Short

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, Games, Draws

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

  Miguel Najdorf

  Fall, Squares, Chess Pieces

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

  Vlastimil Hort

  Believe, Games, Magic

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• Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

  Reuben Fine

  Exercise, Games, Mind

  Reuben Fine (1948). “The World's a Chessboard”

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• I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

  Bobby Fischer

  Men, Psychology, Ego

  "Chess is a wonderful game, but it's no life coach" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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

  Savielly Tartakower

  Sacrifice, Games, Chess Pieces

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• You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

  Andrew Soltis

  Playing Chess, Fischer, Knows

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