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“Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.”

Humans May Littles Human Beings Genius Understood Labor Chess Enterprise Pastime

Author:George Steiner

“A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.”

May Has Beens Problem Games Loses Successful Approach Chess Reputation Mathematician Chess Game Inattention

Book:Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

Source: Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

“You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!”

May Player Advantage Ultimate Chess Pairs Bishops

Author:John Adams

“When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.”

May Play Able Moving Powerful Behinds Clear Plans Masters Late Logic Chess Make Sense Opponents Too Late Playing Chess Fischer

Author:Mark Taimanov