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Chess Quotes by Mark Dvoretsky
- Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions…
- It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.
- 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…
- Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.
- I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes…
- Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-
- Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples.…
- In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way…
- As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
- I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure…
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