Bent Larsen Quotes

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• Chess is a beautiful mistress.
• For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is…
• Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal;…
• The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master
• A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of…
• A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!
• A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.
• Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which,…
• All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may…
• Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.
• In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.
• Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen…
• Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more…
• Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many…
• One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried,…
• I often play a move I know how to refute.
• Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks…

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