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Chess Quotes by Viktor Korchnoi
- No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
- Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same…
- The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
- All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
- The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
- The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
- Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
- As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake…
- It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in…
- It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the…
- Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion…
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