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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
The way I play is not like most people. The moves are more computeresque. They're not the moves that most humans are going to play.
It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.
I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.
If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.
For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.
I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.
I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.
Psychology plays a big part but I always say psychology will only be a differentiator when the players are of equal technical strength.
I played against men most of my life because our goal was that I wanted to reach the highest potential to be an absolute world champion.
When I was 15, I became the youngest grandmaster in the world, breaking the record set by Bobby Fischer more than three decades earlier.
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.
Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.
What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.
There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.
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.
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.