Chess Quotes - Page 18

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Clive James

Sports, Rude, Balls

Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.231, Pan Macmillan

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Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

Garry Kasparov

Levels, Loser, Winner

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Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

Bobby Fischer

Success, Believe, Winning

Svetozar Gligorić, Bobby Fischer, Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (1972). “Fischer v Spassky: the World Chess Championship Match, 1972”

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Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.

Jose Raul Capablanca

Struggle, Ideas, Imagination

José Raúl Capablanca (1947). “Hundred Best Games of Chess”

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The Pawns are the soul of the game

Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

Games, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

Bobby Fischer

Mistake, Moving, Chess Game

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The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

Emanuel Lasker

Moving, Player, Thinking

Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

Games, Play, Design

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I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

Mikhail Botvinnik

Independent, Player, Games

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A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Norbert Wiener

Successful, Games, Chess Game

Norbert Wiener (1953). “Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth”

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I hate anyone who beats me.

Lisa Lane

Hate, I Hate, Beats

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When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Mikhail Botvinnik

Time, Variation, Opponents

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Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

Magnus Carlsen

Thinking, Giving, Intuition

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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Marcel Duchamp

Beauty, Block, Chess Pieces

Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

Emanuel Lasker

Intelligent, Player, Games

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My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

Dave Barry

Games, Chess Pieces, Literature

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Clever, Stupid

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.912, e-artnow

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Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

Siegbert Tarrasch

Masters

"Chess and Computers". Book by David N. L. Levy (p. 40), 1976.

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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

Daniel Craig

Sexy, Thinking, Games

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In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

Emanuel Lasker

Playing Chess, Chance, Masters

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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Garry Kasparov

Player, Fighter, Exceptional

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On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

Emanuel Lasker

Truth, Lying, Long

Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Cecil Purdy

Golf, Pawns, Chess Pawns

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It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

Savielly Tartakower

Sacrifice, Men, Chess Game

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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.

Bobby Fischer

Player, People, Manhattan

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

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