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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. — Jay Maisel
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is… — Reuben Fine
The Pawns are the soul of the game — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening,… — Michael Stean
Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game — Siegbert Tarrasch
The hardest game to win is a won game — Emanuel Lasker
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game — Savielly Tartakower
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an… — Savielly Tartakower
Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to… — Maurice Ashley
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war… — Karl A. Menninger
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game — Siegbert Tarrasch
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently — Mark Twain
You can only get good at Chess if you love the game — Bobby Fischer
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
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game — Wilhelm Steinitz
The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly — Irving Chernev
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
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch
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
I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of… — Siegbert Tarrasch
There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game. — David Pleat
I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't think you grow… — Cristiano Ronaldo
After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they… — Cristiano Ronaldo

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