Chess Quote by Bent Larsen Download Open image “A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.” — Bent Larsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Chess players Heart Heart attack Humour Player Position
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast,… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it,… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won. — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books,… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
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