Chess Players Quotes - Page 4

• The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism.

  Pat Robertson

  Player, Keys, Feminism

  "The 700 Club". TV series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Basketball, Player, Numbers

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Father, Player, Chess

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• Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

  Anne Bronte

  Player, Chess, Company

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. XXXIII : Two Evenings; Helen to Walter, 1848.

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• Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

  Andrew Soltis

  Player, Genius, Chess

  "Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess". Book by Harry Golombek, 1977.

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• As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

  Levon Aronian

  Player, Psychology, Feelings

  "Aronian: 'I have a lot of blood in my brain'". Interview with Christian Schwager and Markus Lotter, November 20, 2008.

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• Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Player, Emotional, Giving

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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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• Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Opportunity, Player, Training

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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 dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Dog, Player, Playing Chess

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• ... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Country, Player, Availability

  "King Ludd is still dead". www.koreatimes.co.kr. October 11, 2012.

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• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

  Boris Gelfand

  Lying, Home, Player

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• There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

  David Bronstein

  Heart, Player, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

  Bent Larsen

  Heart, Player, Chess

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• Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Chess

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• We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.

  Richard Reti

  Player, Mind, Gone

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• Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Player, Vices

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.642, Modern Library

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• The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Art, Lying

  Garry Kasparov (2017). “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

  Boris Spassky

  Success, Player, Games

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• Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

  James Gleick

  Player, Skills, Mad

  James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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• To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

  David Bronstein

  Dream, Player, World

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• One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have to be able to criticize constructively. When you have someone who is always on your case and it's never good enough no matter how you win a game, it just brings you down, you lose confidence. And as a chess player you have to be confident, you have to believe in yourself.

  Hikaru Nakamura

  Believe, Thinking, Winning

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  Jerry Bridges

  Army, Winning, Player

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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