On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
What is your favorite chess quote?
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Mar 25, 2019
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9497010838 wrote:
IMBacon, very good quote. Lasker had a lot of wise and witty advice
Its always been my favorite chess quote, because it is so true. No matter who you play, you can tell the real person by how they act during a game of chess.
Mar 25, 2019
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#4
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.”
David Shenk, The Immortal Game: A History of Chess...
Source : Chess Quotes https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/chess
"Chess is historically invoked to ―allegorize life and morality ‖ (Bingham, 1900) through the use of symbolism, analogy and metaphor. This practice is so widespread that it is tempting to conclude that the game, its rules and nomenclature arise within and are reflections of socio-histories and social life..."
Michael W. Raphael
Source : Chess:The Preface to a Technical Resource for Sociology: 🎓
Thesis :
Mar 25, 2019
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#5
"The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess."
~H.G. Wells
Mar 25, 2019
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#7
Pacillus wrote:
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.”
David Shenk, The Immortal Game: A History of Chess...
Source : Chess Quotes https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/chess
"Chess is historically invoked to ―allegorize life and morality ‖ (Bingham, 1900) through the use of symbolism, analogy and metaphor. This practice is so widespread that it is tempting to conclude that the game, its rules and nomenclature arise within and are reflections of socio-histories and social life..."
Michael W. Raphael
Source : Chess:The Preface to a Technical Resource for Sociology: 🎓
Thesis :
When you start trying to use quotes that sound too high brow, they lose any and all meaning.
By @Ziryab: "thousands of blitz games lead me to expert; if I wouldn't have played them, I probably would be a master".
“Checkers is for tramps”- Paul Morphy
Mar 25, 2019
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#12
@ImBacon 
you have the right to think what you want , but if is too "high" for sure for certain it would be middle etc... all variations to calculate...
Chess is a distraction...
"The Pin is mightier than the Sword"
-Fred Reinfeld
No one ever won a game by resigning.
Mar 25, 2019
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#15
AlkinKing wrote:
“Checkers is for tramps”- Paul Morphy
Paul Morphy has never said that. That is relevant...
https://www.chess.com/games/paul-morphy
Mar 25, 2019
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#17
"To have a knight planted in your game at [e3 for White/e6 for Black] is worse than a rusty nail in your knee". -- Efim Bogolyubov
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.”