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  • I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

    Country   Team   Player  
    "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World’s Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.
  • All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

    Player   Games   Chess  
    Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.10, Courier Corporation
  • Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
  • Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

    Success   Player   Games  
  • Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

    Pride   Player   Mind  
  • A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

    Lying   Home   Player  
  • One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

    Moving   Doe   Opponents  
  • A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

  • In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

    Player   Champion   Chess  
    Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. October 16, 2006.
  • The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

    Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.167, Courier Corporation
  • A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

  • Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

    Player   Genius   Chess  
    "Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess". Book by Harry Golombek, 1977.
  • A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

  • For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

  • The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

  • Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

  • First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

    Success   Player   Games  
  • As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

    "Aronian: 'I have a lot of blood in my brain'". Interview with Christian Schwager and Markus Lotter, November 20, 2008.
  • Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

    Player   Skills   Mad  
    James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon
  • Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

    Levels   Chess   Loser  
  • I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

    "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.
  • The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

    Player   Different   Use  
  • I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

  • When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

    Stress   Player   Curves  
  • Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

    Player   Chess   Strategy  
  • The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

    Struggle   Player   Mind  
    Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC
  • The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism.

    Player   Keys   Feminism  
    "The 700 Club". TV series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).
  • By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

    Moving   Mean   Thinking  
  • A great chess player always has a very good memory.

  • The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

    Player   Champion   Chess  
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