Chess Quotes - Page 12

• In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Champion, Lasts

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. October 16, 2006.

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• I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

  John Turturro

  Son, Years, Play

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• The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

  Gerald Abrahams

  Chess Game, Tactics, Knows

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• I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

  Boris Spassky

  Trying, Debt, Juniors

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• People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Kindness, Heart, People

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• Tactics flow from a superior position

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess Game, Tactics, Flow

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• Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

  Richard Reti

  Mother, Tongue, Capablanca

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• Chess is imagination.

  David Bronstein

  Imagination

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• It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

  David Bronstein

  Song, Kings, Winning

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• There just isn't enough televised Chess

  David Letterman

  Enough, Humour

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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 Game, Chess Pieces

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

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• Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Numbers, Violin, Inferiors

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• For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Doors, Computer

  "Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting'". Der Spiegel interview, en.chessbase.com. October 1, 2008.

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• ...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

  H. Russell Wakefield

  Humility, Lovers, Cold

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• Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Mean, Winning

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• A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

  Richard Fenton

  Moving, Men, Psychology

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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

  Chess Game, Playing Chess, Fischer

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Mad, Orthodoxy

  Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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• I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

  Bobby Fischer

  Chess Game, Needs, World

  Interview by William Lombardy, 1972.

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• As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Superiority

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• Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

  Jean Piaget

  Long Distance Relationship, Learning, Distance Love

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• My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  School, Math, Years

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• In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Order, Games, Chess Game

  "Last Lectures". Book by Jose Raul Capablanca, 1966.

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• Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Writing, School, Language

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• I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Play, Decision

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