Chess Players Quotes
35 quotes by 29 authors
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I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
— Emanuel Lasker
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One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together!…
— Fred Reinfeld
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Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play…
— Bobby Fischer
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India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.
— Judit Polgar
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The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.
— Lodewijk Prins
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Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists
— Marcel Duchamp
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All Chess players should have a hobby
— Savielly Tartakower
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Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
— Frank Brady
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The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant.…
— Israel Albert Horowitz
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Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
— Marcel Duchamp
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It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
— Anatoly Karpov
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By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves,…
— Anatoly Karpov
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For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
— Vladimir Kramnik
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The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a…
— Daniel Levitin
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Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.
— Anne Bronte
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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…
— Mark Dvoretsky
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Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though…
— Richard Reti
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Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
— Anatoly Karpov
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... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online…
— Kenneth Rogoff
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