Famous Chess Quotes
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Apr 12, 2018
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#2
"They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess."
Bobby Fischer
"A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing"
Bobby Fischer
Snookslayer wrote:
"A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing"
Bobby Fischer
Talk about projection!
“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.” – Siegbert Tarrasch
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann
"I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the goddamn Jews have stolen my entire file on that"
Bobby Fischer
Apr 13, 2018
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#10
"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." -Tartakower
Apr 13, 2018
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#11
FBloggs wrote:
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann
"A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose." -Tartkower
Apr 13, 2018
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#12
"How did that happen? I must be a genius!" - The first man ever to play a knight fork.
"The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians."
Bobby Fischer
"Capablanca wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative."
Bobby Fischer
EDirga wrote:
FBloggs wrote:
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann
"A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose." -Tartkower
Good one!
“When you see a good move, look for a better one” -Lasker
Apr 13, 2018
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#18
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” – Savielly Tartakower
Some quotes from past (and present) players are insightful, interesting, or just plain funny. Here is one from Tal:
"To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess."
-Tal, "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal" p. 28, 1997 Cadogan Books, PLC