Chess Quotes

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Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing — Unknown Author
The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly — Irving Chernev
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat — Siegbert Tarrasch
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess — Mikhail Botvinnik
My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply — Alexey Suetin
It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer — Mikhail Tal
Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares — Miguel Najdorf
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world — H.G. Wells
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind… — Albert Einstein
Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it — Viswanathan Anand
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Unknown Author
You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer — Andrew Soltis
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder — Miguel Najdorf
Checkers is for tramps — Paul Morphy
When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic — Unknown Author
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few — Unknown Author
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres
It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed… — Efim Geller
In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead — Isaac Kashdan
I still hope to kill Fischer — Boris Spassky

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