Chess Player Quotes
55 quotes by 43 authors
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:…
— G. H. Hardy
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright…
— Kate Chopin
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because…
— Bobby Fischer
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged…
— Arthur Koestler
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For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.
— Eduard Gufeld
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Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion
— Alfred Binet
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
— Bobby Fischer
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Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player
— Max Euwe
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The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind…
— Albert Einstein
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There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to…
— Lisa Lane
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The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of…
— Emanuel Lasker
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I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering…
— Vladimir Kramnik
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The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy…
— Pat Robertson
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
— Magnus Carlsen
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Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
— Andrew Soltis
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As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.
— Levon Aronian
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I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind…
— Humpy Koneru
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Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in…
— Lev Polugaevsky
Who Wrote These Chess Player Quotes
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