Chess Quotes - Page 37

• If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.

  Jennifer Shahade

  Women, Events, World

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• I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

  Bobby Fischer

  Women, Moving, Knights

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• I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

  Susan Polgar

  Women, Hard Work, Goal

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• It's very important not to put pressure on a child. Make sure that she/he feels that whatever happens it's not the end of the world. If they cry after a loss that's normal, as adults also hate to lose. If they win a game you should make them feel very proud but make sure they know the next game will be another challenge.

  Judit Polgar

  Children, Hate, Loss

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• I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of a professional, without first completing their chess studies. Deficiencies in education and a lack of certain basic knowledge will tell sooner or later; they will bump their head on the ceiling and will no longer be able to climb up to the stars.

  Sergei Shipov

  Stars, Player, Able

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• When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.

  Jan Timman

  Player, Age, Should

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• I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

  Justin Bieber

  Team, School, People

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• Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Talent, Young, Existence

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• It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Sacrifice, Player

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• Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Player, Inexperience, Requirements

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• When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Example, Subjectivity

  "About Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth, Creativity, Telepathy and Artificial Intelligence". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• Firstly, there no such person as Death.
  Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians.
  Third, he doesn't exist either.

  Neil Gaiman

  Death, Horse, White

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• All I ever want to do is just play chess.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want

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• If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

  Lennox Lewis

  Media, Angle, Knows

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• Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Art, Reality, Expression

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• Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Brother, Games

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• Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Writing, Three, Pages

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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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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