Chess Quotes - Page 9

• The hardest game to win is a won game

  Emanuel Lasker

  Success, Winning, Games

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• Blitz chess kills your ideas.

  Bobby Fischer

  Ideas, Blitz

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• By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.

  Garry Kasparov

  Years, Games, Foundation

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• If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Training, Helping

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Games, Giving

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

  David Bronstein

  Play, People, Machines

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

  Bobby Fischer

  Giving, Opponents, Gains

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• Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Ideas, Black, Needs

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• The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

  Larry Evans

  Beauty, Artist, Simplicity

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• Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

  Gerald Abrahams

  Mistress, Masters

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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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• Checkers is for tramps

  Paul Morphy

  Checkers, Tramps

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• Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.

  Salo Flohr

  Love Is, Like Love, Age

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• Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Strategy, Logical

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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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• Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Mistake, Book, Variation

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• I add status to any tournament I attend.

  Bobby Fischer

  Add, Tournaments

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• Chess is a matter of vanity.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Vanity, Matter

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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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• Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Risk, Innovation

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• Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting it will help you to get better results.

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Play, Interesting

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• Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Gymnastics, Intellectual

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• Chess demands total concentration

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Demand, Concentration

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• There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

  H. G. Wells

  Remorse

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Pawns

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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