“The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.” PeoplePersonsSoulPlayWholeIndividualGivenBrainImagineMastersMajorityClubsChessSmokeAtmosphereTensionNervesGiven UpCafesOne Sided Author:Richard Reti
“We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.” WayMindIndividualGonePlayerGoes OnEvolutionCarefulChessPerceiveConsiderationLatterChess Players Author:Richard Reti