Masters Quotes

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None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of… — Jose Raul Capablanca
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
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
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious… — Max Euwe
Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth… — Unknown Author
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. — Albert Einstein
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. — Emanuel Lasker
The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes… — Richard Reti
Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master. — Gerald Abrahams
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel… — Edward Weston
All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master. — James Madison
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a… — Ben Jonson
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
Every Chess master was once a beginner — Irving Chernev
Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the… — Yasser Seirawan
The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly — Irving Chernev
The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master — Bent Larsen
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to… — Aldo Leopold
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly,… — Mikhail Botvinnik
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all… — Garry Kasparov
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein

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