Samuel Reshevsky Quotes

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• My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian
• What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties:…
• By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in…
• Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
• Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
• No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
• It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.
• The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable…
• Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course,…
• The only good Rook is a working Rook!
• We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its…
• Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

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