Tips for beginners on how to play chess.

Here's some great lessons from chess quotesade by great chessplayers and what we can learn from them

"All I ever want to do is play chess"- Bobby Fischer

A lesson in dedication.

Ifyou are bright enough to make a living at it then forget school sacrifice your grades and friends just to become a grandmaster. Nothing else matters! I can't emphasize this enough. Not everybody can be a GM but if you can run that race it's worth it! 

"I only look one move ahead but it is always the right one"- Jose Raul Capablanca

This is key to understanding how to play chess.

Obviously if you only need to think one move ahead, forget the what  they taught you about variations and calculation. 

It's that simple! Capablanca never calculated a variation in his life (a complete waste of time) and he got to world champion status.

"To see him writing his very move down made me feel like resigning"- Paul Keres on Botvinnik

This shows that handwriting matters. I've been museums where I get awed just to see how neatly Henry the eighth wrote inscriptions. I have felt like bowing when I've seen Egyptian hierlogophies written in Tutankhamen's neat handwriting (or hand inscribing) 

So if your handwriting is neat you opponent will notice it and feel like resigning. 

These tips are great for beginners to master the game of chess. 

Silly

It may seem silly at first but when you think about it it makes sense! Capablanca never calculated variations! Botvinnik did yet capa was superior. This was demonstrated in a famous story when Botvinnik spent hours analysing a position and capa found the right move in three seconds.

Fischer's comment also may seem silly but consider the stakes. If you can become world championship is any sacrifice not worth it? 

And about handwriting it's about appearance count. why did Steinitz have a beard? To scare the crap out of his opponent. He looked like a cave man for Pete's sake.

I thought it was serious until I got to the bit about handwriting. Sehr lustig!

That was just humor but the rest was serious 

Maybe you've mistake Capablanca for Reti who was being sarcastic?

Nein, non, niet si. It was capablanca  who made that famous comment. Besides reti always thought many moves ahead his clock times were legendary. And it did him no good against a one move guy like Capa

A chance for knowledge in your life and not being a social outcast arent over the chance of being a GM?

I'd give up the shirt on my back never mind friends and social circles, to be a Grandmaster never mind world champion. That kind of achievement was only achieved by twenty people out of billions. Less than a hundred  games out of trillions won world championships.

Chess has the biggest player pool of any sport and the fewest world champions. In football twelve people win in chess just one.

Fair enough.