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Source: Pebbles on the shore

“With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time”

“Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him”

Masters Kings Chess Clarity Opponents Powerless Fischer

Author:Bruce Pandolfini

“I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy”

Made Ideas Ability Player Genius Strategy Chess Freshness Pragmatism Fischer

Author:Bruce Pandolfini

“Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions”

Action Games Speech Speed Chess

Author:Matt Selman

“No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.”

Matter Bigs Games Names Pieces No Matter What Hip Hop Rap Chess Chess Game

Book:Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary

Source: Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary

“Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.”

Fear Computer Advantage Blue Chess No Fear Describing Have No Fear Competitive Advantage Ibm

Author:Yasser Seirawan

“I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.”

Knows Play Chess

Author:Russell Crowe

“The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.”

Stills Matter Imagination Levels Creativity Depends Development Highest Chess Opponents Imagination And Creativity

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.”

Ifs Book Stories Home Hands Television Chess Manage Boards Mail Packages Detectives Chores Unanswered Detective Stories

Author:Rex Stout

“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.”

Years Wells Long Hard Seems Hours Levels Numbers Practice Magic Greatness Amount Thousand Ten Chess Nine Elites Legendary Nine Years

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Why are most chess masters under 30?”

Masters Chess

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“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

“Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.”

Sex Position Depends Chess

Author:Boris Spassky

“At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.”

Love Family Marriage Support Chess Husband And Wife Love And Marriage Positive Marriage

Author:Larry Christiansen

“He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.”

Play Serious Intelligent Chess Climbing Drinkers

Author:Warren G. Harding

“There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.”

Music Shapes Mass Studios East Chess Expecting Solo Mist Hysteria Recording Studio Shape Of Things Mass Hysteria

Author:Jeff Beck

“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.”

“The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.”

Play Use Games Computer Chess

Author:Eugene Jarvis

“Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.”

Needs Money Fame Chess Saving Money

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.”

World Wells Philosophy Night Literature Animal Teacher India Inspired China Chess Equations Grammar Imaginative Fables Arabian Arabian Nights Phonetics

Author:Lin Yutang

“Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.”

Knows Men Special Genius Universal Mark Mathematics Chess Universality

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.”

Writing Stories Girl Reading Next Worry Minutes Activity Normal Clothes Math Chess One Minute Writing Stories Playing Chess Reading Writing

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“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

“I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.”

Giving Fun Hours Giving Up Chess Playing Chess

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.”

Thinking Giving Sometimes Courses Results Intuition Chess Checks Analysis Accurate Time Spent

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.”

Loses Losing Chess Upset Monopoly

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“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.”

Found Easier Chess Fats Mice Greedy Skeletons Slim Coconuts

Author:Viktor Korchnoi

“Chess is not only knowledge and logic”

Logic Chess

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”

Mind Littles Facts Law Time Player Crime Committed Excuse Chess Statements Instance Drunk Law Breakers

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.”

Play Fighting Given Style Position Demand Aim Chess Fantastic Strategic Tactical

Author:Alexander Alekhine

“Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.”

Play Sides Strategy Chess Boards Favourite Both Sides Playing Chess

Book:My best games of chess, 1924-1937

Source: My best games of chess, 1924-1937

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

Company Player Chess Chess Players

Author:Anne Bronte

“In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.”

Play Night Found Father House Masters Towns Chess Regions Occupation Officers Every Night Our Town Gestapo

Author:Bruno Schulz

“Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.”

People Mad Chess Sane

Author:William Hartston

“Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.”

Shows Courses Found Games Dog Example Philosophical Chess Classroom Abstraction Ping Ping Pong Chess Match

Author:Boyd Rice

“Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.”

Ifs Should Play Use Moving Time Winning Forget Position Circumstances Chess Clock

Author:Pal Benko

“I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.”

Problem Study Player Chess Urges Endgame

Author:Pal Benko

“The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.”

Ifs Should Lasts Moving Responsible Dollars Investment Eight Chess Forty Starvation Pawns Capital Investment Forty Eight

Author:William Ewart Napier

“In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.”

Wells Sound Tests Chess Boards Laboratory Gambit

Author:William Ewart Napier

“Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life.”

Made Form Courses Games Brain Progress Capacity Chess Reactions Objectives Pity Organized Remembrance Shortcomings Homo Sapiens Complication Great Progress

Author:Lodewijk Prins

“After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived”

Moments Games Middle Chess Opening Chess Game There Is Hope Endgame Moment Of Truth

Author:Edmar Mednis

“I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.”

People States Able Young Games Interesting Levels United United States Events Higher Bigger Profession Chess Pursue Respectable Tournaments Ambassadors Higher Level

Author:Maurice Ashley

“The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.”

Sacrifice Possibility Chess Repeats Etc Defence

Author:Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

“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

“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”

Believe Hard Moments Faces Success Ability Levels Hard Work Weak Adversity Determined Resilience Chess Vulnerable Facing Adversity Adversity And Character Tai Chi

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.”

Ifs Life War Soul Play Facts Peace Interest Loses Common Pieces Player Chess Champion

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.”

Years School High School Clubs Math Chess Freshman Freshman Year Freshman Year In High School

Author:Eric Allin Cornell

“There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world”

World Sea Adventure Chess

Author:Pierre Mac Orlan

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