Richard Reti Quotes

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• Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
• The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes…
• Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.
• It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in…
• The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
• Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though…
• It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be…
• The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces…
• No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.
• We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite…
• A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which…
• Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite…
• The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.
• It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is…

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