Chess is masturbation for males who can't get laid.
What is your favorite chess quote of all time?
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Very Suspicious - GM Finegold.
Works across several domains of life, including Chess.
"my opponent was Short And the game was short" Garry Kasparov "Some players think it's okay to lose if your opponent plays well,I don't.You have to be merciless"-Magnus
intersectinglines wrote:
'Chess is the only art form where composition and performance take place at the same time'
'Not all artists are chess players, but all chess players are artists'
Well, maybe not so much the ones who blunder their queens away in the first 10 moves.
Skill at chess is a sure sign of a misspent childhood. - Sigmund Freud
Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
this grips me more than would a muddy old river or reclining Buddha - GM Murray Head
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.
Bobby Fischer
that's more like psychological projection to me.
Aug 30, 2017
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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.... Mikhail Tal
Fischer's on exiting an establishment... "Chess is better."
Sep 18, 2017
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Patzer sees a check, patzer gives a check.
- Robert J. Fischer .... oh sorry Bobby Fischer of course
Not my favorite but I felt like sharing this anyway cause it made me lol:
"Can I try to......do something very bad to you."
"Uh....then...not...um....I don't know....(nervous giggling)..."
- GM Ivan Sokolov to WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili...in reference to the chess match of course..geez...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDGsP9W_PoQ
@4:28:30 for context....
Those who can do, those who can't comment on chess websites.
Alekhine commenting a game in the book of the tournament New-York 1924: "From now on this is plain butchery"
Siegbert Tarrasch: "Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men (and women) happy."
(I put in the parenthetical addition.)