Chess Quotes
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What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.
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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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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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Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
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Boxing and chess are similar. Its about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. Its about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesnt just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponents punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.
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Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
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Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.
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Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
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The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.
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I play chess, but my past is checkered,
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Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.
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Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.
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Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
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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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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
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Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
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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 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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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.
