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Chess Quotes by Boris Gelfand
- I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which…
- The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.
- When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of…
- If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on many sites you…
- A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive…
- I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where…
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