Chess Game Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Always Trying, Black

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• First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Success, Player, Games

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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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• 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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• He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Queens, Giving Up, Pawns

  "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy". Book by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn (p. 81), 1965.

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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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• Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

  Bobby Fischer

  Thinking, Losing, I Can

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• Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

  Eduard Gufeld

  Games, New Life, Chess

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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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• 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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• Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

  Mikhail Tal

  Simple, Games, Opponents

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• The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

  Michael Stean

  Games, Chess Pieces, Important

  Michael Stean (2013). “Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Brother, Games

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• The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

  Thomas Huxley

  Expanding Universe, Law, Games

  'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'

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• I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Moving, Psychology

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• The Pawns are the soul of the game

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Games, Chess Pieces, Soul

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• The hardest game to win is a won game

  Emanuel Lasker

  Success, Winning, Games

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• Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

  Cecil Purdy

  Success, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Good positions don't win games, good moves do

  Gerald Abrahams

  Moving, Winning, Games

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• Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Believe, Player, Games

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• In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Games, Criminals

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• Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

  Richard Reti

  Fighting, Games, Intellectual

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• Tactics flow from a superior position

  Bobby Fischer

  Tactics, Flow, Position

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