Chess Players Quotes - Page 3

• Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

  Boris Spassky

  Sacrifice, Player, Important

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• A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

  Arthur Dean

  Giving Up, Player, Opposites

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• When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

  Arthur Koestler

  Stress, Player, Curves

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• India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

  Judit Polgar

  Player, India, Chess

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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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• The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Player, Two, Boards

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• I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Genius, Chess

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• I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

  Lou Gerstner

  Player, Thinking, Looks

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• The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

  Lodewijk Prins

  Player, Chess, Common

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• Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

  Bobby Fischer

  Simple, Player, Games

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• Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Player, Quality

  Pierre Cabanne, Marcel Duchamp (1971). “Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp”, Studio

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• The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

  Joseph Heller

  Player, Games, Interesting

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Psychology, Chess

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Player, Chess

  "Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company".

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  Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Player, Analysis, Chess

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• Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Always Trying, Castles

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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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• The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant. But never before has there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already he has managed to alienate and offend almost everybody in the chess world. That includes officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and anybody who might be in a position to help him in his career.

  Israel Albert Horowitz

  Player, Vanity, Careers

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• Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

  Frank Brady

  Pride, Player, Mind

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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 a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Player, Class, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Player, Champion, Chess

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• By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Struggle, Player, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

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• I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.

  Humpy Koneru

  Exercise, Player, Training

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