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Chess Quotes by Samuel Reshevsky
- My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian
- Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
- No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
- The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable…
- Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course,…
- The only good Rook is a working Rook!
- We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its…
- Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.
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