Chess Quotes - Page 7

• Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

  Max Euwe

  Thinking, Tactics, Playing Chess

  "Sales - What A Concept!: A Guidebook for Sales Process Performance Improvement" by Henry C. (Sandy) Waters III, p. 11, 2011.

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• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, Artist, Men

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• I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Beauty, Art, Victim

  "TIME" Magazine, March 10, 1952.

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• Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

  Lars von Trier

  Way, Opinion, Force

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• Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

  Peter Mayhew

  Hair, Games, Interesting

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• Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

  Jan Timman

  Games, Chess Game, Variation

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• Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

  Miguel Najdorf

  Fischer

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• Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.

  Frank Brady

  Hate, All Time, Filled

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• She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

  Bobby Fischer

  School, Eye, Squares

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• Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

  Dave Regis

  Play, Razors, Brilliant

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• Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

  Roman Dzindzichashvili

  Pawns, Humour, Compensation

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• You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

  Marc Lowrance

  Player, Doe, May

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• Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

  Solomon Burke

  Labels, Ends

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• In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

  Paul Keres

  Complicated, Fischer, Position

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• Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

  Larry Evans

  Player, World, Facts

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• The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Time, Years, Lasts

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• In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

  Pal Benko

  Sports, Art, War

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• Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.

  Paul Morphy

  Games, Relaxation, Serious

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• My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

  Bobby Fischer

  Moving, Learning, Taught

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• If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Chess Game, Playing Chess

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• I like to make them squirm.

  Bobby Fischer

  Psychology

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• Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening

  Mikhail Tal

  Player, Games, Possibility

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• Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

  Garry Kasparov

  Matter, Chance, Computer

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• It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

  Mikhail Tal

  Loss, Chess Game, Play

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