Playing Chess Quotes

• When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

  Aristotle

  Lonely, War, Play

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• Every Chess master was once a beginner

  Irving Chernev

  Learning, Beginners, Enlightening

  Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld (2013). “Winning Chess: Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic”, p.148, Pavilion Books

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  Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Sports, Art, Board Games

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• The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

  H. G. Wells

  Passion, World, Chess

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

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• When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Play, Ideas, Waiting

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• What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Success, Player, Games

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• By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Firsts, Caution

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• I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Team, Chess Game

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• Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

  Max Euwe

  Thinking, Tactics, Requirements

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

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• When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

  Boris Spassky

  Winning, Chess Game, Play

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• Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

  Judit Polgar

  Play, Psychology, Chess

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• Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Play, Boards, Chess

  Alexander Alekhine (1955). “My best games of chess, 1924-1937”

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• When you see a good move, look for a better one.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Inspirational, Sports, Moving

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• Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Winning, Simple, Play

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• You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

  Che Guevara

  Play, Politics, Chess

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• You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

  Andrew Soltis

  Chess Game, Fischer, Knows

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• It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Success, Player, Enough

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• No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

  Marc Lowrance

  Play, Chess, Fool

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• If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Chess, Knows

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• There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

  Mortimer Collins

  Men, Yield, Class

  Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Chance, Masters, World Champions

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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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• By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources

  Benjamin Franklin

  Secret, May, Firsts

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• To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

  Mikhail Tal

  Play, White, Degrees

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