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- You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the…
- Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer
- By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the…
- Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with…
- I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.
- I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.
- My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.
- It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with…
- Now I have the pawn and the compensation.
- What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.
- And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents…
- I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.
- I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!
- Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.
- There are no heroes in chess.
- A lot of the difference between an IM and GM is a seriousness to the game. The GM is willing to go through all this.…
- Well, well. IM (and correspondence GM) Douglas Bryson once told me that he almost never plays a game that flows smoothly from start to finish;…
- I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available for said…
- Tal doesn't move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand.
- ...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.
- Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White
- ...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
- Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even…
- It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all…
- 19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game.
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