Chess Quotes
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Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
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I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.
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In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
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The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
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Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.
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Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
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The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.
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Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
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Chess is 99 percent calculation.
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In chess there is a world of intellectual values.
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.
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We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
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Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
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Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.
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One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
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When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.
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I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.
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Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.
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When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.
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The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
