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“Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.”

Ifs Want Has Beens Time Lost Situation Position Chess

Author:Edmar Mednis

“Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.”

Reason Play Used Time Games Left Serious Majors Advantage Pressure Available Chess Opening Reason Why Opponents Sufficient More Time Rapids Fischer

Author:Edmar Mednis

“Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.”

Truth Style Changed Decades Chess Heritage

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.”

Truth Moving Found Imagination Brilliant Chess Contrast

Book:Common Sense in Chess

Source: Common Sense in Chess

“I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.”

Has Beens Said Whole Able Women Careers Player Chess Tricks Tricky

Author:Judit Polgar

“... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.”

Thinking Knows Men Feels Ideas Problem Games Grows Women Animal Forever Growing Up Intellectual Affection Solve Chess Cures Lasting Disappointed Conceit Amiable Lasting Love Checkmate

Author:Charles Dickens

“There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.”

Women Example Competition Chess Status Quo Hungary

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

“Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.”

Men Action Women Events Chess Thanks Titles Adjectives Affirmative Action Affirmative Anachronism

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

“If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.”

Ifs Men World Feels Should Women Events Men And Women Agree Chess Occasional Tournaments Integrated Ratios

Author:Jennifer Shahade

“I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.”

World Giving Moving Women Pieces Chess Knights

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!”

Women Chess Knights Fischer

Author:Mikhail Tal

“I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.”

Hard Felt Women Goal Hard Work Chess Motivated Diligent Starters

Author:Susan Polgar

“It's very important not to put pressure on a child. Make sure that she/he feels that whatever happens it's not the end of the world. If they cry after a loss that's normal, as adults also hate to lose. If they win a game you should make them feel very proud but make sure they know the next game will be another challenge.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Should Children Important Ends Happens Hate Next Games Winning Loses Challenges Loss Cry Proud Normal Adults Pressure Chess End Of The World Whatever Happens Youngsters

Author:Judit Polgar

“I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of a professional, without first completing their chess studies. Deficiencies in education and a lack of certain basic knowledge will tell sooner or later; they will bump their head on the ceiling and will no longer be able to climb up to the stars.”

Firsts Seems Able Young Certain Stars Study Player Chess Climbs Addresses Sooner Or Later Strict Ceilings Bumps Deficiency Youngsters Completing

Author:Sergei Shipov

“When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.”

Should Age Young Player Chess Young Age Youngsters

Author:Jan Timman

“I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.”

People Ifs Knows School Team Chess Youngsters I Am Pretty

Author:Justin Bieber

“Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.”

Young Can Do Existence Talent Chess Instance Ridicule Youngsters Young Talent

Author:Aron Nimzowitsch

“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

“Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.”

Young Player Chess Relative Requirements Youngsters Inexperience

Author:Samuel Reshevsky

“When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.”

Found Games Speak Example Chess Clarity Mathematical Subjective Subjectivity

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.”

Persons Bigs Faces Death Guy White Thirds Horse Bones Chess Tall Monk Playing Chess White Horse Scandinavians Hourglass Scythes Tall Guys

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago”

Given Answers Paper Chess Examination Questions And Answers

Author:Siegbert Tarrasch

“Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.”

Taught Chess

Author:Mikhail Botvinnik

“All I ever want to do is just play chess.”

Want Play Chess

Author:Bobby Fischer

“If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.”

Ifs Knows Media Chess Angle

Author:Lennox Lewis

“Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.”

“Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.”

Able Three Games Challenges Levels Minutes Dog Brother Computer Weak Chess Faster Opponents Chess Game Younger Brother

Author:Dave Barry

“Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.”

Writing Seems Three Masters Pages Chess

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.”

Important Book Games Pages Chess Up Early Chess Game

Author:Al Leiter

“Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.”

Hard Ego Chess Alter Ego

Author:Bobby Fischer

“We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.”

Play Easy Difficult Car Masters Conversation Computer Beats Chess Desert Playing Chess

Author:Hod Lipson

“It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.”

Men Said Games Winning Sound Voice Impossible Chess Bitter Opponents Mates Malicious Board Games

Author:A. A. Milne

“For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.”

Men Reason Seems Pleasure Known Authority Wine Drinking Complicated Chess Ritual Obscure Bent Sections Greatest Pleasures Depriving

Author:Craig Claiborne

“A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.”

School Funny Courses Sports Deals Party Humorous Dancing Unions University Folks Clubs Chess Russia Communist Soviet Soviet Union Pupils Elementary School Bolsheviks Secondary School

Author:George Mikes

“I like the moment when I break a man's ego.”

Men Moments Break Psychology Ego Chess Chess Game

Author:Bobby Fischer

“All I want to do, ever, is play chess.”

Want Play Chess Playing Chess

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.”

“I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.”

Trying Mean Play Use Culture Three Understanding Steps Five Four Phones Chess Cells Cell Phone Using Me

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.”

Giving Writing Games Acting Creative Directors Shots Give Me Chess Thrilling Pawns Chess Game Creative Freedom

Author:Amber Benson

“Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.”

Doe Sports Chess Appeals Minorities Mainstream Popular Sports

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.”

Book Term Honestly Chess Predecessors

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“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

“Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.”

Thinking Careers Right Now Chess Really Happy

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.”

People Important Enough Play Age School Courses Understanding Needed Lucky Chess

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.”

Ifs Knows Talent Chess Satisfied

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.”

People Men World Firsts Intelligent Coaches Chess Contact Former Champion Civilized Stature Part Time World Champions

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”

“I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.”

Play Happens Genius Chess

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”

Mind Hard Science Sex Hard Work Baseball Scientist Drinking Chess Beer Friendly Atheistic Beer Drinking

Book:Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.”

People Ifs Kind Stories Games Sports Millions Generations Strategy Chess Dragons Suspects Diplomacy My Generation Dungeons Simulation Geopolitical

Book:Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

Source: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

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