Chess Quotes - Page 30

• There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

  Alexander Kotov

  Mistake, Congratulations, Self

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• The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.

  Edmar Mednis

  Mistake, Moving, Errors

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• Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Mistake, Victory, Haste

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• To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Real, Mistake, Moving

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• Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Mistake, Mastery, Ends

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• Haste, the great enemy.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Mistake, Enemy, Haste

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• Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

  Garry Kasparov

  Regret, Mistake, Moving

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

  Israel Albert Horowitz

  Mistake, Glee, Ordinary

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• Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Errors, Feelings

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• Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Play, Numbers

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• Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

  David Bronstein

  Two, Enemy, Pieces

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• No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Pawns, Opening, Files

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• The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

  Alexander Kotov

  Games, Topography, Pawns

  "The Art of the Middle Game".

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• I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Pawns, Results, Chess Pawns

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• As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Character, Pawns

  Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Queens, Games

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• Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.

  Yasser Seirawan

  Strong, Moving, Cutting

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• But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Mother, Father, Games

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• Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.

  Anthony Santasiere

  Kings, Delicacy, Pawns

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• It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

  Alison Gopnik

  Inspiring, Player, Years

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• The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Two, Mystery

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• Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

  Fernando Arrabal

  Theatre, Madness

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• I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.

  Pal Benko

  Girlfriend, Eye, Naps

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• What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Past, Play

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• I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kings, Bad Experiences, Opening

  "Chess Winners Win Slowly" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

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