Chess Quotes - Page 16

• No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

  Richard Reti

  Ease, Capablanca, Endgame

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• I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Art, Responsibility, Accepting

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• A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.

  Alexander Morozevich

  Sports, Art, Struggle

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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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• Chess is one long regret.

  Stephen Leacock

  Regret, Long

  Stephen Leacock (1943). “Happy stories, just to laugh at”

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• Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

  Garry Kasparov

  Cousin, Fate, Technology

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better.

  Garry Kasparov

  Team, Intelligent, Blue

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul

  Al-Masudi

  Squares, Ties, Soul

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• Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms

  Karl A. Menninger

  War, Games, Play

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• It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

  A. A. Milne

  Winning, Men, Games

  1919 Not That It Matters.

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• It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

  Garry Kasparov

  Imagine, Difficult

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• Life's too short for chess.

  Henry James Byron

  Life, Humorous, Chess Game

  1874 Our Boys.

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• The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

  David Bronstein

  Thinking, Essence

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• I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Believe, Player, Creating

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

  Bruce Pandolfini

  Kings, Opponents, Clarity

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

  Lodewijk Prins

  Player, Chess Players, Common

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• Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

  Alfred Binet

  Passion, Player, Ideas

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• There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

  Bobby Fischer

  Nice, Player, Chess Game

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• Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

  Boris Spassky

  Literature, Fischer, Enormous

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• Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

  William Ewart Napier

  Long, Faults, Life Is

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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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• 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, Kind

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• I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

  Mark Twain

  Moving, Games, Lasts

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, Penguin

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• For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Art, Self, Expression

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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