Chess Quotes - Page 32

• A great chess player always has a very good memory.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Success, Memories, Player

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• I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.

  Harry Golombek

  Success, Queens, Player

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• A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.

  David Bronstein

  Time, Strong, Heart

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• Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Opportunity, Player

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 14, 2017

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• I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

  Saffron Burrows

  Player, Scrabble, Infuriating

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• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Success, Reflection, Games

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• Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mean, World, Championship

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• For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Self, Play

  "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

  Walter Browne

  Success, Games, Best Effort

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• If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Oil, Ideas

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

  Edmar Mednis

  Time, Want, Lost

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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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• 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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• The only good Rook is a working Rook!

  Samuel Reshevsky

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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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• 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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• Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Secret, Development, Theory

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• When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

  Susan Polgar

  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

  Viswanathan Anand

  School, Skills, Firsts

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• The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Worst Enemy, Play, Clouds

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.

  Dan Heisman

  Keys, Boards, Pieces

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• When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

  David Bronstein

  Boards, Opponents, Strategy

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• It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Pieces, Cost, Strategy

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• One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried, there usually are still opportunities left for initiating action in another sector.

  Bent Larsen

  Opportunity, Action, Strategy

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• Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Important, Pieces, Facts

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