Chess Quotes

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It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting… — Mark Dvoretsky
Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously. — Mark Dvoretsky
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. — Mikhail Botvinnik
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the… — Mikhail Botvinnik
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the… — Mikhail Botvinnik
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender… — Savielly Tartakower
To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns,… — Garry Kasparov
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative… — Emanuel Lasker
The hallmark of the artist is simplicity. — Larry Evans
The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. — Boris Gelfand
To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop… — Emanuel Lasker
While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without… — Larry Evans
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop. — Mikhail Botvinnik
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… — Richard Reti
As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to… — Siegbert Tarrasch
The future belongs to he who has the bishops. — Siegbert Tarrasch
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. — Anatoly Karpov
He who analyses blitz is stupid. — Unknown Author
It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that… — Viswanathan Anand
Blitz chess kills your ideas. — Bobby Fischer

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