Top 346 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Chess Players - Page 2
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A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents
Be a harsh critic of your own wins.
Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.
Now I have the pawn and the compensation.
19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game.
He who analyses blitz is stupid.
I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available for said move- you should evaluate which rook to move and, once you have made up your mind... MOVE THE OTHER ONE!!!
I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great deal in order to achieve this goal.
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.
At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.
What would Chess be without silly mistakes?
My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.
...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.
When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic
Most strong players are completely self-centered.... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.
It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all the way. [...] A pretty finale. I was obviously hoping for the beauty prize sacrificing both my rooks and all, but OK, Im [sic] afraid requirements are one makes a move of his own for that it seems. Something I could avoid doing in the last five rounds in Dresden. Silly game, this chess.
Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White
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.
I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.
Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!
You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.
When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post.
You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.
I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.
I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!
Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.
The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.
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.
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do
Chess is for everybody.
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent
Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant
In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.
A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!
We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today.
It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan
Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.
Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.
When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.
My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian
One should respect a defeated opponent!
When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.
Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.
I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.
I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories.
If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.
