Chess Players Quotes - Page 5

• It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

  Alison Gopnik

  Inspiring, Player, Years

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• Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

  David Bronstein

  Success, Player, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• A great chess player always has a very good memory.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Success, Memories, Player

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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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• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Thinking, Games

  Interview With Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Mistake, Moving, Player

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• It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Sacrifice, Player

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• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Different, Chess

  "The (New) Greatest Chess Player Of All Time". Interview with Ryan McKee, www.askmen.com. December 10, 2012.

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• I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Sports, Player, Years

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

  Shankarananda

  Player, Two, Kaleidoscope

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• Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Strong, Kids, Player

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• I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

  Maurice Ashley

  Player, Thinking, Chess

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• The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

  Boris Spassky

  Player, Unions, Chess

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• Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Mad, Chess

  Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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• There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Player, Analogies, Chess

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.838, Xist Publishing

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• To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Creativity, Player

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Men, Player

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Chess, Matter

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• Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.

  Liz Garbus

  Player, Community, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

  Ralph Charell

  Independent, Player, Thinking

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• Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Player, Games, Chess

  "Obama Is Like a Chess Player". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2009.

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• Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Mad, Imagination

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Moving, Player, Games

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• The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Chinese, Argentina

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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