Winnie_Pooh wrote:
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.
Michail Nechemjewitsch Tal
That is a great one....
What is your favorite chess quote of all time?
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GM Alfred E. Newman, "What, me worry?"
batgirl wrote:
cornbeefhashvili wrote:
I think that was Casablanca when asked how many moves ahead he thought during a game.
The film or the city??
Damn spellcheck! I had just about enough of its shirt!
Dec 12, 2014
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#26
During a post-mortem, a player was overheard saying to his opponent: "You worry too much about your pawns. They will be all in a row at the start of your next game."
siekensat wrote:
candyass4ever wrote:
During a post-mortem, a player was overheard saying to his opponent: "You worry too much about your pawns. They will be all in a row at the start of your next game."
or the one that goes something like King and Pawn go back into same box at end of game
Yeah but that one's supposed to be a metaphor for life.
"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of lies; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrites.”
―Emanuel Lasker
Lets head them off at the pass.
Fixing_A_Hole wrote:
"Which do I prefer? Sex or Chess? It depends on the position."
-Boris Spassky
I don't know if your quote is correct, because Alekhine made a similar and better one: "Which do you prefer? Queens on the bed, or on the chess board?" - "It depends on her position."
partial quote...If chess is a mistress she's a demanding one. If chess is a passion it's a rewarding one. If chess is life it's a sad one.
NBKXX: That's a real Spassky quote. Perhaps he was drawing on Alekhine.
Spassky is a jewel. Quick, funny, and self-effacing.
“You’ll suffer from girls”, said my trainer Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush. And he was right. The first time I got married was early on, at 22. Almost immediately I realised that my wife and I were opposite-coloured bishops. Military actions commenced. I ended up in hospital because of nerves. I was saved by Mikhail Yurevich Cherkes, the manager of the Moscow railway. He provided me with a one-bedroom flat while my militant wife moved into my socialist mansion.
http://www.chessintranslation.com/2012/01/spassky-i-knew-the-openings-badly/
Dec 14, 2014
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#36
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. - Mikhail Botvinnik
Wilkes1949 quoted Richard Reti:
I don't remember who it was that said this, but one of the old masters in an interview was asked "How many moves do you think ahead?" His answer was "Only one-----but it's always the right one?"
Reti studies mathematics although he is not a dry mathematician; represents Vienna without being Viennese; was born in old Hungary yet he does not know Hungarian; speaks uncommonly rapidly only in order to act all the more maturely and deliberately; and will yet become the best chessplayer without, however, becoming world champion. - Savielly Tartakower
Chess players are like chessboards - squares.
"It is always better to sacrifice your opponent's pieces",Tartakower
"Check mate!" - me