Best Chess Players Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.”

Knows Two Reason Turns Games Study Player Masters Advantage Accounts Stronger Chess Thanks Knights Bishops Chess Players

Author:Richard Reti

“Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.”

Firsts Play Player Dog Meetings Speed Chess Ritual Acquaintance Chess Players Playing Chess Blitz

Author:Anatoly Karpov

“... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.”

People Has Beens Country Today Young Interest Player Computer Program Chess Thanks Online Availability Chess Players

Author:Kenneth Rogoff

“Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.”

Needs Firsts Kids Strong Worry Player Computer Machines Chess Programmers Chess Players

Author:Mikhail Botvinnik

“A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.”

Ideas Home Lying Player Draws Built Chess Officials Lazy Sole Deceiving Presumption Chess Players

Author:Boris Gelfand

“There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.”

World Heart Long Doe Games Sound Player Beats Mere Chess Familiar Faster Beloved Chess Players Gambit

Book:200 Open Games

Source: 200 Open Games

“A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.”

Heart Player Position Humour Chess Heart Attack Chess Players

Author:Bent Larsen

“Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening”

Games Player Possibility Position Chess Opening Chess Players Fischer

Author:Mikhail Tal

“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.”

Way Mind Individual Gone Player Goes On Evolution Careful Chess Perceive Consideration Latter Chess Players

Author:Richard Reti

“A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game”

“I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.”

Thinking World Should Looks Said Player Chess Chess Players Chess Match

Author:Lou Gerstner

“I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Said Player Chess Incidents Chess Players Bring Me Down

Author:Maurice Ashley

“The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.”

Rich Player Changed Unions Chess Exception Soviet Soviet Union Chess Players Fischer

Author:Boris Spassky

“The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.”

Art Shows Success Lying Can Do Player Highest Chess Opponents Allowing Chess Players

Book:Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

Source: Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

“Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.”

Levels Chess Winner Willingness Loser Unthinkable Chess Players

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.”

Form Success Games Ability Player Chess Indicators Climax Chess Players

Author:Boris Spassky

“The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.”

Play Games Player Failing Judging Fine Reader Intelligent Chess Chess Players Playing Chess

Author:Emanuel Lasker

“Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.”

Ifs Kind Seems Certain Social Player Genius Skills Computer Mad Chess Sanity Mathematician Lacking Programmers Chess Players Computer Programmers Social Skills

Book:Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman

Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman

“To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.”

World Play Dream Player Chess Championship Chess Players

Author:David Bronstein

“One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have to be able to criticize constructively. When you have someone who is always on your case and it's never good enough no matter how you win a game, it just brings you down, you lose confidence. And as a chess player you have to be confident, you have to believe in yourself.”

“The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.”

Winning Player Capable Glory Army Chess Superiors Confusion Opponents Pleasant Inferiors Calamity Chess Players Novices

Book:Trusting God

Source: Trusting God

“It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.”

Years Turns Inspiring Player Economic Easier Chess Chess Players Simulate

Author:Alison Gopnik

“One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.”

Doe Moving Succeed Strategy Chess Opponents Conventions Anticipate Chess Players

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.”

Success Games Quality Player Independence Valuable Chess Boards Preparing Chess Players Independence Of Thought

Book:200 Open Games

Source: 200 Open Games

“A great chess player always has a very good memory.”

Success Memories Player Very Good Chess Good Memories Chess Players

Author:Leonid Shamkovich

“A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.”

People Self Matter Success Player Century Needed Skills Chess Shy Fund Championship Twentieth Century Charisma Cultivating Knack Chess Players Epitome Promoters People Skills Sponsorship

Author:Garry Kasparov

“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.”

Thinking Games Player Chess Chess Players

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.”

Ifs Moving Games Lost Mistake Player Errors Chess Commit Superiors Instance Finest Beaten Adversaries Chess Players

Author:Adolf Anderssen

“In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.”

Ifs Knows Wells Lasts Player Century Theory Depends Chess Opening Champion Chess Players

Author:Bobby Fischer

“It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.”

Way Care Young Lying Watches Player Sacrifice Ultimate Delight Chess Objectives Gifted Youngsters Sinister Chess Players

Author:Richard Reti

“It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.”

Different Easy Common Player Chess Chess Players

Author:Magnus Carlsen

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