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Chess Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell
- My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
- Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the…
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- In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the… — Mark Dvoretsky
- Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
- Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin
- The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this… — Anatoly Karpov
- Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of… — Magnus Carlsen
- Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed… — Anatoly Karpov
- Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite. — Yuri Razuvaev
- Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A A Milne