Famous Chess Quotes
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Apr 12, 2018
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#2
Snookslayer wrote:
"A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing"
Bobby Fischer
Talk about projection!
“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.” – Siegbert Tarrasch
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann
"It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men." -Tartakower
"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." -Tartakower
FBloggs wrote:
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann
"A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose." -Tartkower
Apr 13, 2018
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#9
"How did that happen? I must be a genius!" - The first man ever to play a knight fork.
“Without error there can be no brilliancy.” -Emanuel Lasker
EDirga wrote:
FBloggs wrote:
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann
"A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose." -Tartkower
Good one!
Apr 13, 2018
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#13
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” – Savielly Tartakower
“The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient.” – Aron Nimzowitsch
Apr 13, 2018
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#16
Come on, that is just weak. Win a tournament for the first time in your life, and maybe people will start taking you seriously -Magnus Carlsen to Anish Giri
“The pin is mightier than the sword.” – Fred Reinfeld
Cathy Forbes in 1992: "Why, in your opinion do women generally not play chess as well as men?"
Fischer: "Well, it seems to be nature, but perhaps with time they are improving, and I assume that they will continue to improve."
"That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one." - Fischer (1992)
Some quotes from past (and present) players are insightful, interesting, or just plain funny. Here is one from Tal:
"To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess."
-Tal, "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal" p. 28, 1997 Cadogan Books, PLC