Opponents Quotes

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Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces — Akiba Rubinstein
One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent — Siegbert Tarrasch
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men — Savielly Tartakower
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent — Mikhail Tal
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration — Bobby Fischer
If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a… — Jeremy Silman
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one — Mikhail Tal
When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens,… — Alexander Alekhine
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
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat — Siegbert Tarrasch
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Yuri Balashov
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder — Miguel Najdorf
When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch
Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. — Lionel Messi
An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should… — Mahatma Gandhi
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. — Mahatma Gandhi
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for… — Magnus Carlsen
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the… — Garry Kasparov
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a… — Garry Kasparov

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