Chess Quotes
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Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
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Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.
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I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.
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If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.
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For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
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In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
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It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
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My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
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Chess is a natural cerebral high.
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
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Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just 'trusting in God' to give me the moves.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
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Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
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Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.
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The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
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Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.
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Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
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Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
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Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
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Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers who play on a par with a master. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.
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Chess is, above all, a fight.
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On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.
