Alexander Kotov Quotes

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• It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.
• I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his…
• You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness…
• Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
• The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
• When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write…
• I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the…
• All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and…
• You must not let your opponent know how you feel.
• The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing…
• Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in…
• In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.
• After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view…
• Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting it…
• If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there…
• In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within…
• Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is…
• Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces…
• Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players…
• The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to…

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