Chess Quotes
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Hard to say whether personal immortality would be a good thing or not. Not for the masses, surely! Too many of them as it was. But a select few, like Terangi Maclaren-or was it worth the trouble? Even given boats, chess, music, the No Drama, beautiful women and beautiful spectroscopes, life could get heavy.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
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To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)
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The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
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Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
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The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
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People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
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Chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West.
Garry Kasparov -
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
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Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
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As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.
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There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
