Favorite Chess Quotes

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I'll start:

Chess has three phases:

The first when one hopes one has an advantage;

The second when one believes one has an advantage;

And the third when one knows one is going to lose.

Savielly Tartakower

It is a well  known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middlegame quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the endgame.

Aaron Nimzovich

Shit, that is mate!

     -most of my relatives on Thanksgiving day.

close to mine victhestick^^^ except more like

"yes, that's mate, you win!"

"Um no mom that's move 1 pawn to e4.........."

"You mean I have to keep playing?"

"Squeeze his balls, but just one, not both." -Spassky (on how to beat Petrosian when Kasparov asked him)

or this one.....

When Spassky was asked whether he prefers sex or chess, he answered: "It depends on the position..."

"When I play as White, I win because I am White. When I play as Black, I win because I am Bogoljubov." -Efim Bogoljubov

Heh, great quotes ... where do you get all these?

I like the second Spassky quote.

answers like that lead to mate

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Hey Diana_L

I thought Fischer was the one who made the (opening,middle,endgame) comment

ballzaias busted

do you two already know each other?

I did...they never got back to me

Seriously I just was asking a question.  LOL

When Fischer was younger, he was a charming lion. I most enjoyed his concept of success, which was translated as if he were somewhere between a child and a hitter from Brooklyn, only a child and a hitter from the world of chess, and not at all concerned with political correctness. Hence this quote I found at Bobby Fischer quotes. Anyone remember who Art Linkletter was?

Sadly, Bobby was not the same Fischer in his later years:

First of all, I'll make a tour of the whole world, giving exhibitions. I'll charge unprecedented prices. I'll set new standards. I'll make them pay thousands. Then I'll come home on a luxury liner. First-class. I'll have a tuxedo made for me in England to wear to dinner. When I come home I'll write a couple chess books and start to reorganize the whole game. I'll have my own club. The Bobby Fischer ... uh, the Robert J. Fischer Chess Club. It'll be class. Tournaments in full dress. No bums in there. You're gonna have to be over eighteen to get in, unless like you have special permission because you have like special talent. It'll be in a part of the city that's still decent, like the Upper East Side. And I'll hold big international tournaments in my club with big cash prizes. And I'm going to kick all the millionaires out of chess unless they kick in more money. Then I'll buy a car so I don't have to take the subway any more. That subway makes me sick. It'll be a Mercedes-Benz. Better, a Rolls Royce, one of those fifty-thousand-dollar custom jobs, made to my own measure. Maybe I'll buy one of those jets they advertise for businessmen. And a yacht. Flynn had a yacht. Then I'll have some more suits made. I'd like to be one of the Ten Best-dressed Men. That would really be something. I read that Duke Snyder made the list. Then I'll build me a house. I don't know where but it won't be in Greenwich Village. They're all dirty, filthy animals down there - lower than cats anddogs. Maybe I'll build it in Hong Kong. Everybody who's been there says it's great. Art Linkletter said so on the radio. And they've got suits there, beauties, for only twenty dollars. Or maybe I'll build it in Beverly Hills. The people there are sort of square, but like the climate is nice and it's close to Vegas, Mexico, Hawaii, and those places. I got strong ideas about my house. I'm going to hire the best architect and have him build it in the shape of a rook. Yeah, that's for me. Class. Spiral staircases, parapets, everything. I want to live the rest of my life in a house built exactly like a rook. -- Bobby Fischer (on what he'd do when he won the world championship)" -- Bobby Fischer 

Es bonito hablar, pero es mejor hacer.

When I am white, I win because I am white. When I am black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

"Sometimes the threat is greater than the execution"--Nimzovich

My favorite chess quote comes from European professional soccer player Lukas Podolski: who said of soccer (football, to you Euro-english speakers):

"It's like chess only without the dice."

For those of you who don't understand Spanish and so missed INVINCIBLE's post, it said (presumably of the long Fischer quote), roughly translated, that, "It's pretty to talk, but better to do."

Here's one I just came across, that I quite like:

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off.
[Nigel SHORT]