Chess Quotes - Page 34

• Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Beautiful, Law, Progress

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• However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

  Paul Keres

  Stubborn, Resistance, Hopeless

  Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov (2012). “The Art of the Middle Game”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, School, Games

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• We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

  Rumi

  Victory And Defeat, Pieces, Engaged

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Sound, Study, Aphorism

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

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• A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Style, Roles, Study

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• My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Play, Understanding, Fascination

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• Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

  Jan Timman

  Memories, Forever, Study

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• There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Past, Player, Games

  "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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• Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Winning, Men, Expression

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• The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Ideas, Political

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• I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

  Garry Kasparov

  Style, Symbiosis, Fischer

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• I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Style

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• I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

  Susan Polgar

  Believe, Style, Universal

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• But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

  Miguel Najdorf

  Games, Play, Perfection

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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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• Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Winning, Impossible

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• I think it's very natural to get nervous. I've usually got concerns about a specific thing in the opening which might worry me. I have to be relaxed and balanced emotionally and then I can concentrate on the moves during the game. Then things will be ok.

  Judit Polgar

  Success, Moving, Thinking

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• Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.

  Mark Taimanov

  Success, Character, Two

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• But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

  Anatoly Karpov

  Success, Opponents, Gains

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• Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

  Edmar Mednis

  Success, Play, Results

  Edmar Mednis (1983). “From the opening into the endgame”, Pergamon

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• Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

  Alexander Kotov

  Success, Moving, Player

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• The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Essentials, Firsts, Strategy

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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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• The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Simple, Decision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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