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None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.
You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing
I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.
I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".
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
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.
The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.
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.
Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.
If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly.
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.
I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently