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- Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by…
- Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear…
- In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born…
- Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it…
- Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules…
- Chess is mental torture.
- Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact…
- For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young…
- When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack…
- By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
- Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the…
- Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a…
- The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours…
- This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all…
- The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
- Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and…
- In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many students…
- The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not…
- Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
- You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a…
- Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess…
- By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the…
- 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,…
- It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the…
- Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered…
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