Best Chess Players Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“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.”

Player Century Revolution India Bounds China Chess Leap Improving Chess Players Leaps And Bounds

Author:Judit Polgar

“The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.”

Common Player Chess Chess Players

Author:Lodewijk Prins

“For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.”

Games Player Lifetime Chess New Life Chess Game Chess Players

Author:Eduard Gufeld

“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.”

Believe Evil Games Player Capable Chess Chess Game Chess Players Evil Thoughts

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature”

Passion Sacrifice Chess Fascination Chess Players

Author:Rudolf Spielmann

“Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack”

Player Strategy Chess Initiative Chess Players

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion”

World Should Looks Ideas Whole Feelings Passion Emotion Psychology Player Chess Whole World Chess Players

Author:Alfred Binet

“There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player”

Guy Nice Player Tough Chess Nice Guy Chess Game Chess Players

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.”

World Player Prove Chess Prove It Best Players Chess Game Chess Players I Am The Best

Author:Bobby Fischer

“A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player”

Success Strong Imagination Memories Player Chess Concentration Chess Players Strong Will

Author:Bobby Fischer

“It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well”

Wells Enough Play Success Player Chess Chess Players Playing Chess

Author:Siegbert Tarrasch

“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”

Ifs Should Book Use Used Player Sight Glasses Chess Chess Players

Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind”

Thinking Trying Mind Moving Given Player Position Chess Combination Tactics Chess Players

Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”

Artist Player Chess Chess Players

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!”

People Looks Has Beens Success Games Space Successful Pieces Player Masters Quiet Leaving Chess Attacking Grind Chess Game Chess Players Chess Pieces

Author:Yasser Seirawan

“Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player”

Psychology Player Chess Characteristics Mistrust Chess Players

Book:The Game of Chess

Source: The Game of Chess

“What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game”

Games Player Objects Cost Losing Chess Opening Reputation Acquire Chess Game Chess Players Playing Chess Dashing Gambit Losing A Game

Author:Siegbert Tarrasch

“All Chess players should have a hobby”

Should Player Should Have Chess Hobbies Chess Players

Author:Savielly Tartakower

“Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player”

Giving Games Player Aim Strategy Chess Opponents Chess Game Chess Players World Champions Checkmate

Author:Max Euwe

“The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game”

Mind Games Taken Player Resilience Chess Enormous Chess Game Chess Players

Author:Albert Einstein

“Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess”

World Mind States Player Pride Sorrow Tragedy Currents Chess State Of Mind Chess Players Fischer

Author:Frank Brady

“First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game”

Firsts Sometimes Play Success Games Loses Class Player Chess First Class Chess Game Chess Players Playing Chess

Author:Siegbert Tarrasch

“There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived”

Thinking Games Winning Player Chess Thorough Chess Game Chess Players Will To Win Intricacy Indomitable Thorough Knowledge Indomitable Will

Author:Lisa Lane

“Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.”

Self Play Moments Success Belief Chance Ability Quality Player Risk Dangerous Intuition Critical Chess Enormous Opponents Belief In Self Chess Players Critical Moments

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.”

People World Trying Believe Success Spirit Winning Goal Prove Beats Don't Believe Chess Reputation Wasting Time Championship Clown Chess Players Proving Yourself

Book:Fischer v Spassky: the World Chess Championship Match, 1972

Source: Fischer v Spassky: the World Chess Championship Match, 1972

“Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. Given the opportunity, I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponent's thinking and, in so doing, unnerve him. So it is in business: One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.”

Thinking Doe Matter Enough Moving Opportunity Games Given Levels Succeed Strategy Brilliant Chess Winner Opponents Guts Willingness Loser Conventions Anticipate Unthinkable Chess Players

Author:Garry Kasparov

“This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.”

Believe Heart Use Success I Believe Ability Masters Essentials Elements All Things Intuition Chess Analysis Devices Harness Chess Players

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant. But never before has there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already he has managed to alienate and offend almost everybody in the chess world. That includes officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and anybody who might be in a position to help him in his career.”

World Has Beens Helping Might Careers Player Position Huge Ego Chess Vanity Officials Amazed Psychologist Legendary Patron Anecdotes Chess Players Prima Donnas

Author:Israel Albert Horowitz

“Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.”

Way Artist Certain Quality Player Chess Supposed To Be Madmen Chess Players

Book:Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp

Source: Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp

“The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.”

Giving Games Player Sorrow Satisfaction Deny Chess Combination Crowns Chess Players

Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.”

Firsts Wells Has Beens Facts Known Class Player Chess Analysis Well Known Outstanding Analysts First Class Chess Players

Book:Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games

Source: Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games

“The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.”

World Firsts Wells Player Constant Including Coaches Chess Champion Chess Players World Champions

Author:Anatoly Karpov

“By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Mean Whole Moving Games Vision Practice Study Player Valuable Chess Way Of Thinking Chess Players

Author:Anatoly Karpov

“One does not succeed by sticking to convention.”

Doe Succeed Chess Conventions Chess Players

Author:Garry Kasparov

“For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.”

Artist Language Natural Player Chess Chess Players

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.”

Believe I Believe Situation Player Succeed Creating Expectations Chess Senses Chess Players

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.”

Ifs Should Bigs Hours Loses Player Serious Habit Limits Aim Chess Favour Rapids Concentrating Chess Players Playing Chess Blitz

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism.”

Term Ability Player Feminism Masters Keys Chess Chess Players

Author:Pat Robertson

“The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.”

“My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.”

Has Beens Father Player Influence Fine Chess Massive Chess Players

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.”

Company Player Chess Chess Players

Author:Anne Bronte

“Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.”

Ifs Player Genius Chess Attributes Chess Players

Author:Andrew Soltis

“Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.”

Knows Play Character Know How Psychology Player Influence Chess Mood Psychological Chess Players Playing Chess

Author:Garry Kasparov

“You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.”

Trying Believe Winning Strong I Believe Psychology Player Aspect Importance Constant Chess Boards Chess Players Overestimate

Book:How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.”

Feelings Able Psychology Player Cold Machines Chess Chess Players

Author:Levon Aronian

“Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.”

Giving Important Sometimes Loses Emotion Psychology Player Influence Events Emotional Negative Chess Factors Boards Concentration Instability Chess Players

Author:Mark Dvoretsky

“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'.”

Mind Body Sound Hours Player Exercise Training Chess One Hour Chess Players Physical Exercise Sound Mind Sound Body

Author:Humpy Koneru

“Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.”

Opportunity Quality Player Training Capacity Chess Analysis Runners Marathon Stamina Chess Players Marathon Runners Perseverence

Author:Lev Polugaevsky

“Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.”

Ifs Form Player Chess Analysis Concentration Chess Players

Author:Lev Polugaevsky

“I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.”

Games Growth Player Claims Independent Chess Analysis Chess Game Chess Players

Author:Mikhail Botvinnik

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