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“Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.”

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Viktor Korchnoi was a former Soviet and international chess grandmaster, born on March 23, 1931, and passed away on June 6, 2016. Korchnoi is highly regarded in the chess world for his unique style and innovative tactics. more

“Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.”

Might Form Literature Games Secret Pieces Wise Function Ancient Chess Mysterious Encounters Squares Legends Usual Scholar Monk Here And There Chess Game Courtiers Ancient Literature

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.”

World Today Games Morning Novel Chess Features Repeats Charm Tire Amusement Delighted Dwellers

Book:The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds

Source: The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds

“...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.”

Feels Humility Cold Lovers Chess Satisfying Disciple Superb

Author:H. Russell Wakefield

“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.”

World Trying Play Challenges Lines Chess Champion Obscure Theoretical World Champions

Author:Alejandro Ramirez

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