What is your favorite chess quote?

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TenyVarona
ponz111 wrote:

"chessplayers make the best mates"

I am not sure but, it depends upon the position... maybe?

Danny_BLT

i was completly winning, if i don't kill myself tonight i will live for a 1000 years.

TetsuoShima

"i like the moment i crush my opponents ego" Fischer

 

thats probably the best chess quote

StampNut

"To free your game, take off some of your adversary's men, if possible for nothing." - Bertin (from 'The Noble Game of Chess')

StampNut

A humourous quote from the 'Daily Mail', 1906:

"It will be cheering to know that many persons are skillful chessplayers, although in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavourably with the cogitative faculties of a rabbit."

TetsuoShima
madvilain wrote:

i was completly winning, if i don't kill myself tonight i will live for a 1000 years.


or if i dont kill myself tonight, my opponent will kill me tomorow ;)

just kidding no probs with sokolov

Suvel
TetsuoShima wrote:

"i like the moment i crush my opponents ego" Fischer

 

thats probably the best chess quote

+1 I agree

Radical_Drift

"My father instilled in me a love for so-called "simple positions", with the participation of only a few pieces. I was able to gain a deep feeling for what each piece is capable of, to sense their peculiarities, their strength and importance in various different situations on the board, the limits of their capabilities, what they "like" and what they "don't like" and how they behave... Such a "mutual understanding" with the pieces enables a player to see that which often remains concealed to purely logical analysis. It is then that the innate ability of a player, which I call a sense of harmony, manifests itself." - Vasily Smyslov

ponz111

My License plate    MATES 5

Scottrf

"I made 21 developing moves in a row, left Houdini with six pawn islands"

Sloughterchess.

Radical_Drift

"Botvinnik almost makes you feel that difficulty attracts him and stimulates him to the full unfolding of his powers. Most players feel uncomfortable in difficult positions, but Botvinnik seems to enjoy them."  -  Max Euwe

Radical_Drift

"Where dangers threaten from every side and the smallest slackening of attention might be fatal; in a position which requires a nerve of steel and intense concentration - Botvinnik is in his element."  -  Max Euwe

ViktorHNielsen

¨Take it or I'll play!¨

Bobby Fisher, after asking for a draw in a morning round against a not-so-strong (compared to Fisher obviously) GM, because he had to meet a Super-GM in evening round.

BhomasTrown

"You can't play it if you can't see it."

Dan Heisman

ribababa

The best indicator of a chess player's form is his ability to sense the climax of the game.

Suvel
ribababa wrote:

The best indicator of a chess player's form is his ability to sense the climax of the game.

good one!

Curious_Barrel

love that Smyslov quote

Benb0302

checkmate!

ribababa

I think it was Spassky

winerkleiner

If you choke...use the heimlich maneuver.