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100 quotes you don't know about chess!

100 quotes you don't know about chess!

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  1. "Let the perfectionist play postal." - Yasser Seirawan
  2. "Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time." - George Bernard Shaw
  3. "You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one." - Mikhail Tal
  4. "I feel as if I were a piece in a game of Chess when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved." - Soren Kierkegaard
  5. "When your house is on fire, you can't be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack, you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side." - Gary Kasparov
  6. "Man is a frivolous, specious creature, and like a Chess player, cares more for the process of attaining his goal than for the goal itself." - Dostoyevsky
  7. "Chess is above all, a fight!" - Emanuel Lasker
  8. "In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth." - Edmar Mednis
  9. "Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe." - Hindu proverb
  10. "Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf." - Cecil Purdy
  11. "Chess opens and enriches your mind." - Saudin Robovic
  12. "The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard." - Aaron Nimzovich
  13. "Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem." - Saudin Robovic
  14. "If a ruler does not understand Chess, how can he rule over a kingdom?" - King Khusros II
  15. "You are for me the Queen on d8 and I am the Pawn on d7!" - GM Eduard Gufeld
  16. "I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one." - David Levy
  17. "Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game." - William Steinitz
  18. "Every Pawn is a potential Queen." - James Mason
  19. "Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science." - Baron Tassilo
  20. "No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King." - Koblentz
  21. "Chess is a part of culture, and if a culture is declining, then Chess too will decline." - Mikhail Botvinnik
  22. "A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused." - Rudolph Spielmann
  23. "Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent and those who have the ability to organize their creative work." - Mikhail Botvinnik
  24. "One bad move nullifies forty good ones." - Horowitz
  25. "The King is a fighting piece. Use it!" - Wilhelm Steinitz
  26. "Bobby is the finest Chess player this country ever produced. His memory for the moves, his brilliance in dreaming up combinations, and his fierce determination to win are uncanny." - John Collins
  27. "At this time Fischer is simply a level above all the best Chessplayers in the world." - John Jacobs
  28. "There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!" - Boris Spassky
  29. "There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived." - Lisa Lane
  30. "Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening." - Mikhail Tal
  31. "Not only will I predict his triumph over Botvinnik, but I'll go further and say that he'll probably be the greatest Chess player that ever lived." - John Collins
  32. "Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess player who has ever lived." - Ken Smith
  33. "I consider Fischer to be one of the greatest opening experts ever." - Keith Hayward
  34. "By the beauty of his games, the clarity of his play, and the brilliance of his ideas, Fischer made himself an artist of the same stature as Brahms, Rembrandt, and Shakespeare." - David Levy
  35. "Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational, and brilliant. One of the best ever." - Dave Regis
  36. "No other master has such a terrific will to win. At the board he radiates danger, and even the strongest opponents tend to freeze, like rabbits when they smell a panther." - Anonymous German Expert
  37. "Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived." - Larry Evans
  38. "Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the world's greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess." - Frank Brady
  39. "Bobby Fischer is a law unto himself." - Larry Evans
  40. "Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?" - Salo Flohr
  41. "I still hope to kill Fischer." - Boris Spassky
  42. "I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses." - Ron Gross
  43. "If you aren't afraid of Spassky, then I have removed the element of money." - Jim Slater
  44. "Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine." - Larry Evans
  45. "Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational, and brilliant. One of the best ever." - Dave Regis
  46. "Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!" - Alexander Kotov
  47. "The laws of Chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not." - Emanuel Lasker
  48. "First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game." - Siegbert Tarrasch
  49. "Bobby is the finest Chess player this country ever produced. His memory for the moves, his brilliance in dreaming up combinations, and his fierce determination to win are uncanny." - John Collins
  50. "Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess player who has ever lived." - Ken Smith
  51. "Up to this point, White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head." - Siegbert Tarrasch
  52. "Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him." - Bruce Pandolfini
  53. "No other master has such a terrific will to win. At the board he radiates danger, and even the strongest opponents tend to freeze, like rabbits when they smell a panther." - Anonymous German Expert
  54. "White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself." - Siegbert Tarrasch
  55. "Not only will I predict his triumph over Botvinnik, but I'll go further and say that he'll probably be the greatest Chess player that ever lived." - John Collins
  56. "I consider Fischer to be one of the greatest opening experts ever." - Keith Hayward
  57. "By the beauty of his games, the clarity of his play, and the brilliance of his ideas, Fischer made himself an artist of the same stature as Brahms, Rembrandt, and Shakespeare." - David Levy
  58. "Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational, and brilliant. One of the best ever." - Dave Regis
  59. "No other master has such a terrific will to win. At the board he radiates danger, and even the strongest opponents tend to freeze, like rabbits when they smell a panther." - Anonymous German Expert
  60. "Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived." - Larry Evans
  61. "Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the world's greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess." - Frank Brady
  62. "Bobby Fischer is a law unto himself." - Larry Evans
  63. "Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?" - Salo Flohr
  64. "Robert Fischer is a law unto himself." - Larry Evans
  65. "Fischer is under obligation to nobody." - Joseph Platz
  66. "Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the world's greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess." - Frank Brady
  67. "Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury." - Mig Greengard
  68. "Nonsense was the last thing Fischer was interested in, as far as Chess was concerned." - Elie Agur
  69. "Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived." - Larry Evans
  70. "If you aren't afraid of Spassky, then I have removed the element of money." - Jim Slater
  71. "I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses." - Ron Gross
  72. "Fischer sacrificed virtually everything most of us weakies (to use his term) value, respect, and cherish, for the sake of an artful, often beautiful board game, for the ambivalent privilege of being its greatest master." - Paul Kollar
  73. "Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational, and brilliant. One of the best ever." - Dave Regis
  74. "Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine." - Larry Evans
  75. "With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time." - Burt Hochberg
  76. "Fischer is completely natural. He plays no roles. He's like a child. Very, very simple." - Zita Rajcsanyi
  77. "Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer." - Mike Goodall
  78. "Already at 15 years of age he was a Grandmaster, a record at that time, and his battle to reach the top was the background for all the major Chess events of the 1960." - Tim Harding
  79. "Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified." - Jeremy Silman
  80. "When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'" - Mikhail Tal
  81. "I look one move ahead... the best!" - Siegbert Tarrasch
  82. "Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone." - Miguel Najdorf
  83. "Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth." - Yasser Seirawan
  84. "When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong." - Siegbert Tarrasch
  85. "There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess." - H. G. Wells
  86. "By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion." - Garry Kasparov
  87. "By the beauty of his games, the clarity of his play, and the brilliance of his ideas, Fischer made himself an artist of the same stature as Brahms, Rembrandt, and Shakespeare." - David Levy
  88. "Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!" - Siegbert Tarrasch
  89. "Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening." - Mikhail Tal
  90. "Not only will I predict his triumph over Botvinnik, but I'll go further and say that he'll probably be the greatest Chess player that ever lived." - John Collins
  91. "I consider Fischer to be one of the greatest opening experts ever." - Keith Hayward
  92. "By the beauty of his games, the clarity of his play, and the brilliance of his ideas, Fischer made himself an artist of the same stature as Brahms, Rembrandt, and Shakespeare." - David Levy
  93. "Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational, and brilliant. One of the best ever." - Dave Regis
  94. "No other master has such a terrific will to win. At the board he radiates danger, and even the strongest opponents tend to freeze, like rabbits when they smell a panther." - Anonymous German Expert
  95. "White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself." - Siegbert Tarrasch
  96. "Not only will I predict his triumph over Botvinnik, but I'll go further and say that he'll probably be the greatest Chess player that ever lived." - John Collins
  97. "I consider Fischer to be one of the greatest opening experts ever." - Keith Hayward

  98. "By the beauty of his games, the clarity of his play, and the brilliance of his ideas, Fischer made himself an artist of the same stature as Brahms, Rembrandt, and Shakespeare." - David Levy

  99. "Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational, and brilliant. One of the best ever." - Dave Regis
  100. “There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?” -Garry Kasparov