Playing Chess Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let the perfectionist play postal.

  Yasser Seirawan

  Play, Chess, Perfectionist

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

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Want, Chess

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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 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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• I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

  Tony Miles

  Thinking, Valium, Said

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• It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Children, Thinking, Games

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• The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Chinese, Argentina

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Children, Character, Hands

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• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mother, Kings, Father

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• When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.

  Mark Taimanov

  Powerful, Moving, Play

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• Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

  Frank Herbert

  Survival, Needs, Logic

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• Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Luck, Survival

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• [Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see a correlation between their particular genius in playing chess and music and mathematics, etc. ... with human qualities. Some were really good, wonderful people, and some were difficult characters, but there was no clear correlation. But when I met some spiritual masters, [I thought that] there had to be a correlation, and it turned out to be true.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Spiritual, Character, People

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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