Chess Quotes
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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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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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Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
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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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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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Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.
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Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.
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I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.
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Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.
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Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
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Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a lot of it is very subtle, and it catches you by surprise later on. So I don't want to go overboard on this.
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I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.
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Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.
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Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
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The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.
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The business itself is extraordinary levels of complication, one that is affected by virtually everything going on in the world, “multi-dimensional chess”.
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I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you
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Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.
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Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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In chess there is a world of intellectual values.
