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May 24, 2016
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Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. Given the opportunity, I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponent's thinking and, in so doing, unnerve him. So it is in business: One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your str
Dec 18, 2015
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Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. Saul Alinsky
Nov 16, 2015
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Do nothing which is of no use
Nov 1, 2015
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In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language. Tal
Oct 15, 2015
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My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration. - Bobby Fischer
Sep 20, 2015
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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position.
Aug 22, 2015
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You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. Capablanca
Aug 22, 2015
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Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong. - Yasser Seirawan
Aug 22, 2015
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Every pawn is a potential queen. - James Mason
Aug 22, 2015
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The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible. - Jose Capablanca
Aug 22, 2015
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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.- Tal
Aug 22, 2015
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I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer. - Garry Kasparov
Aug 22, 2015
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As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities. - Alexander Alekhine
Aug 22, 2015
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Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices. - Mikhail Tal
Aug 22, 2015
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By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new. - Garry Kasparov
Aug 22, 2015
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In blitz, the knight is stronger than the bishop. - Vlastmil Hort
