Chess Quotes - Page 8

• The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Player, Two, Boards

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

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Time, Years, Lasts

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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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• After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Chess Game, Always Trying

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• Chess is a curse upon a man.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Curse

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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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• Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Loss, Winning, Player

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.560, SCB Distributors

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• Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Player, Strategy, Initiative

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• When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his

  Alexander Alekhine

  Moving, Simple, Thinking

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• Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Simple, Reality, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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• When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Sports, Art, Real

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• The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Player, Knights, Bishops

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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• Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Winning, Thinking, Modern

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• Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get so upset about losing, he'd never maintain the level that he has. I see his point, but somehow I can't accept the idea that these sorts of verbal assaults on people are justified, no matter what their end goal is.

  Irina Krush

  Views, Ideas, People

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• A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Strong, Memories

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• In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Player, Style, Opinion

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• Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Intellect, Touchstones

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• I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Play, Style

  "Kramnik on health, plans - and computers". Interview with Frederic Friedel, en.chessbase.com. March 13, 2006.

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• Blitz chess kills your ideas.

  Bobby Fischer

  Ideas, Blitz

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• There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

  Boris Spassky

  Doe, Pleasure, Fischer

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• Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.

  Pal Benko

  Opportunity, Practice, Needs

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• If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!

  Oleg Romanishin

  Light, Cities, Interesting

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• The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, People, Want

  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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• Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

  Jennifer Shahade

  War, Athletic, Champion

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