Chess Quotes - Page 33

• Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

  Trevanian

  Philosophy, Western, Accounting

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.165, Broadway Books

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• You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

  Mark Lawrence

  Queens, Winning, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.20, Penguin

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• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Cucumbers, Should

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• Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

  Eloisa James

  Games, Making Love, World

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• Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

  Jay Baer

  Moving, Media, Littles

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• I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

  Emo Philips

  Men, Play, Parks

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• Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

  Maile Meloy

  Knights, Way, Diabetes

  Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.70, Canongate Books

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• If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Brave, Risk

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Men, Thinking, Winning

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• One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have to be able to criticize constructively. When you have someone who is always on your case and it's never good enough no matter how you win a game, it just brings you down, you lose confidence. And as a chess player you have to be confident, you have to believe in yourself.

  Hikaru Nakamura

  Believe, Thinking, Winning

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• The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every day from a young age, your soul can be contaminated. I lost my childhood. I never really had it. Today I have to be careful not to become cruel, because I became a soldier too early.

  Garry Kasparov

  Loss, Fighting, Childhood

  "The Tsar's Opponent" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Chess is and will always be a game of chance.

  Jan Hein Donner

  Games, Chance

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  Jerry Bridges

  Army, Winning, Player

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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• The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Differences, Would Be, Excess

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• During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Beast, Strategy, Monk

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• It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

  Alexander Kotov

  Play, Strategy, Wander

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• I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

  Cecil Purdy

  Looks, Pieces, Retreat

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• You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.

  Edmar Mednis

  Moving, Order, Finding Yourself

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• Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

  Edmar Mednis

  Strong, Play, Opponents

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• To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Sound, Strategy, Justification

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• Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

  Irving Chernev

  Moving, Winning, Play

  Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”

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• The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Art, Player, Perfect

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.

  Mikhail Tal

  Kings, Moving, Long

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• When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.

  Pal Benko

  Worry, Upset, Trying

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• Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

  Efim Geller

  Moving, Play, Variation

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