What is your favorite chess quote?
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I heard that GA Thomas once said something like this: "When I play Alekhine I never know what he will do next. When I play Capablanca I always know what he will do next but there is nothing I can do about it."
Lol at that last one!
CHESS RULES !!!
"Win or don't come home".
My current favorite is
""Pawns are born free, yet are everywhere in chains..." ~Andy Soltis
Reporter: Which do you prefer, Chess or Sex?
Spassky: It depends on the position.
I have always been admirable of the late Bobby Fisher who was known as the
chess master ,I have played many games and have had a few good victories thru his books and have enjoyed the game with excitement
i am not a chess wizz but play the best game I can ,with high
expectations of winning most games ,almost to my expectation
The game is extremely concentrative and most intense ,,the plans and the move assignments are very strategic ,any wrong move presents a possible checkmate , But if played with some common sense and knowlege of the
your moves any game can be won ......
blueemu wrote:
Reporter: Which do you prefer, Chess or Sex?
Spassky: It depends on the position.
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Best ever.
Just came across this one I liked:" Anand would play in the Olympiad, if it was held in his kitchen!"
"I intended for you to take that piece." (Said by my students every time they leave a piece hanging.)
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame. - David Janowski
"Do any normal people play chess ?" is my favorite.
Dangerous_Squares wrote:
It's from French Movie "La diagonale du fou" during friendly match between GM and his friend.
Akiva Liebskind: Put it out that cigarette, Gennadi Ivanovitch.
Ivanovitch But I'm not even smoking it.
Akiva Liebskind: It's a threat to me, I suppose. In chess, the threat is stronger than the execution.
I think the original scene and quote are from Nimzovitch.
This one is probably unknown, it is from the annotation of François Le Lyonnais "Beauty prizes in chess", an amazing book :
This black move is really bad. The game is leaving the field of normal chess to become a helpmate problem."
Hans Kmoch made a funny remark: Morphy perfected the combinative style, Steinitz the positional style, Tarrasch the methodical style, Capablanca the machine-like style, and Lasker perfected the styleless style.
" I prefer to be called an Ex-World Champion, it's the only title they can't take away." Tigran Petrosian.
Not bad at all!
Good one!
chessterd5 wrote:
" I prefer to be called an Ex-World Champion, it's the only title they can't take away." Tigran Petrosian.
"Eat cabbage 3 hours before a match and bring a fan"-anonymous.