Chess Quotes - Page 26

• In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Luck, Weakness

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• The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fate, Games, Drawing

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• ...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

  Jon Speelman

  Position, Initials

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• For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Lessons, Want

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• The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

  Alexander Kotov

  Attitude, Learning, Self

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• It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Kings, Bishops, Pawns

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• The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.

  Alexander Morozevich

  Reality, Practice, Common

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• Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

  Michael Stean

  Moving, People, Opening

  Michael Stean (2003). “Simple Chess”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Play, Principles, Bishops

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Sacrifice, Praise, Possibility

  Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books

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• When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mean, Kids, Years

  "Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". CNN-IBN interview, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

  Max Euwe

  Art, Home, Men

  "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld (p. 180), 1956.

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• White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  White, Pawns, Chess Pawns

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• The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

  Boris Spassky

  Mobility, Pawns, Ability

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• I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Opportunity, Play, Pawns

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• The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Running, Player, Risk

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• It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI era." With all due respect, they were wrong.

  Garry Kasparov

  Strong, Father, Player

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The only good Rook is a working Rook!

  Samuel Reshevsky

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• One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Doe, Opponents

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• It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Winning, Player, Endgame

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• Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Player, Tactics, Instinct

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• Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Memories, Mind, Concentration

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• Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Taken, Sleep, Knights

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• I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

  Bobby Fischer

  Games, Scientist, Form

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• In chess there can never be a favorite move. I can probably pinpoint in a specific game, there might be a move that was like, "Oh, that was a good move." And maybe certain moves turned the whole game around, but there's not one special move that does that, unless it's checkmate because that's when the game is over.

  GZA

  Moving, Special

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