Playing Chess Quotes

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  Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Sports, Art, Board Games

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Winning, Chess Game, Helping

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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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• I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Chess, Defence, Opening

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• Let the perfectionist play postal.

  Yasser Seirawan

  Play, Chess, Perfectionist

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• Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

  Benjamin Franklin

  Views, Interesting, Needs

  George Walker, Benjamin Franklin, William Stopford Kenny (1841). “The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board”, p.7

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• I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Play, People

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• One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Success, Play, Opponents

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• Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

  Akiba Rubinstein

  Chess Pieces, Black, Tonight

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• Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

  Dominic Lawson

  Novelty, Jaded, Theoretical

  Dominic Lawson (1994). “End Game: Kasparov Vs. Short”, Harmony

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• I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

  Miguel Najdorf

  Play, Chess, Opponents

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want, Chess

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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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• The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Intelligent, Player, Games

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• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Play, Chess

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• Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Dog, Player, Firsts

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• Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

  Garry Kasparov

  Character, Player, Psychology

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• Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Limits, Serious

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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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• When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

  Mikhail Tal

  Moving, Games, Chess Game

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