Chess Quotes - Page 24

• A good player is always lucky.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Success, Player, Lucky

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• Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Champion, India, Genius

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• Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Falling In Love, Games, Play

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• Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Player, Emotional, Giving

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• In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

  Alexander Kotov

  Tree, Analysis, Variation

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• Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Opportunity, Player, Training

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• You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

  Grigory Sanakoev

  Luxury, Liberty, Permit

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• To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Play, Skills

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• The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Time, Player, Law

  Chess Life, Volume 16-18, p. 113, 1961.

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• The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Elements, Flaws, Reason

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• Attack! Always Attack!

  Adolf Anderssen

  Strategy

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• A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

  David Bronstein

  Games, Battle, Nerves

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• First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Player, Essence, Practice

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• Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

  Che Guevara

  Mean, Intellect, Educate

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• You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens.

  Maurice Ashley

  Children, Reflection, Discipline

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I often play a move I know how to refute.

  Bent Larsen

  Moving, Play, Strategy

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• Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Careers, Challenges

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Kings, Play, Numbers

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• The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Lying, Knights, Long

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• Chess will always be the master of us all.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Masters

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• I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Genius, Capablanca

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• Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Unique, Games, Play

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• Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.

  Gregor Piatigorsky

  Games, People, Pepsi

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• I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

  Albert Einstein

  Games, Intellectual, Spirit

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• When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

  John van der Wiel

  Panic, Humour, Knows

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