Chess Quotes - Page 21

• It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

  Richard Reti

  School, Law, Principles

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• If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game.

  Dan Heisman

  Thinking, Games, Ignorant

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• Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

  Boris Spassky

  Player, Modern, Initiative

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• The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

  Hans Kmoch

  Truth, Battle, Fascinating

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• The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Boys, Years, Clue

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• It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Moving, Chess Game, Strategy

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• Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

  Ashot Nadanian

  Kings, Pieces, Opponents

  Interview at S'pore Chess News, August 23, 2010.

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• The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Kings, Important, Beginners

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• Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Games, Chess Game

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• I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

  Christopher Meloni

  Going Away, Six Months, Months

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• Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

  Boris Spassky

  Sacrifice, Player, Important

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• No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Normal, Madness

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• No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Alliances, Benefits, Should

  "Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com.

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• Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Willing

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• Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Two, Boards

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• I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

  Bobby Fischer

  Men, Chess Game, Psychology

  "Chess is a wonderful game, but it's no life coach" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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• All Chess players should have a hobby

  Savielly Tartakower

  Player, Should Have, Hobbies

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• The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Communication, Cutting, Pieces

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• When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Running, Moving, Thinking

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• Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

  Alexander Kotov

  Opportunity, Victory, Foundation

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• The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.

  Edmar Mednis

  Determination, Learning, Keys

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• When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Play, Ideas, Waiting

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• I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Fighting, Play, Style

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• When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.

  Boris Gelfand

  Sorry, Sparring Partner, Play

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• ... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Exercise, Imagination, Conjuring

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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