"There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world"
-- Pierre Mac ORLAN
What is your favorite chess quote?
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Jun 6, 2013
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#262
Girls who play chess wear nerdy glasses.
lol clint that's not even true
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macer75 wrote:
SecretOfMana wrote:
The hardest thing in chess is to win a won game. - Frank Marshall
That doesn't make sense. Surely it's much harder to win a lost game.
No, winning lost games is much easier. You just wait for opponent to blunder!
All of them went out the window today when I read one by Kasparov that said something like: everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face! That's good.
"Noone has ever won a game of chess by resigning" - Tartakover
"Make your pieces victims (i.e. sacrifice them - in Polish, "sacrifice" sounds very similar to "victim" which makes this saying a nice word play) or you shall become a victim" - Tartakover
Then Kasparov used Tyson's quote. Then I like Tyson's quote. I gotta add that saying to my profile even though it doesn't fit in with anything I've got there now.
Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!
fischers60memorized wrote:
Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!
ehrlicht sagt!
varelse1 wrote:
royalbishop wrote:
This is so true.
Never lose a pawn never lose a game.
"I'd rather have a pawn than a finger."
– Reuben Fine
"It all depends: which pawn and which finger?"
– Roman Dzindzichashvili
It all depends what the pawn or finger is doing!
- Me
Jun 12, 2013
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#275
"As Black I played like a child"
A frustrated Magnus Carlsen at the age of 13 after drawing a wining position against Kasparow.
“Who is your opponent tonight?
Tonight I am playing against the Black pieces”
Akiba Rubinstein
“Chess was Capablanca’s mother tongue”
Reti
“If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out
why he thinks he’s worse”
Nigel Short
"The pawns are rolling." - MatoJelic
"Of course I practiced a lot with the computer, and after beating Rybka and Houdini by 10-0 each, i was absolutelly sure that no-one was gonna stop me winning."
- Borislav Ivanov
If you can't see it you can't play it...
Pillsbury used to play it blindfolded