still gold after all these years. 😃
oinquarki wrote:
fabelhaft wrote: *snip*
Look at it this way; right now, Fischer's dead, and Kasparov's a politician - I think that about settles the question of who's a better guy.
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Jul 24, 2016
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#43
'In January 1947 I caught several children's diseases and learnt how to play chess. I recovered from chicken-pox and mumps without any after-effects: with chess it was a little different. My teacher was another boy, by the name of Jorgen. I vaguely remember one of our first games. He captured all my pieces and still had two rooks left, and he very much enjoyed forcing my poor King to the edge of the board and giving mate.' - Bent Larsen.
In the Autumn of 1923 I learned to play chess and everything else receded into the background. The chess board was homemade, a square piece of plywood with the squares shaded in ink; the pieces of palm wood, thin and unstable. One white bishop was missing and a lead soldier stood on the f1 square. I calculated badly, and although I was allowed to take moves back I was always blundering something away, including this toy soldier.' - Mikhail Botvinnik.
Jul 24, 2016
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#44
Bogoljubov sucks hard, he got destroyed by Alekhine, I just laugh at his stupid and patzerian ghost face whenever I read that quote, lol!
“Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.”
― Mikhail Tal
“Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).”
― Bill Gaede
10 years later... What is this?
"Chess is 1% inspiration and 99% tactics."
- Thomas Edison