Player Quotes

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A good player is always lucky. — Jose Raul Capablanca
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must… — Jose Raul Capablanca
The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes… — 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
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in… — Alexander Alekhine
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
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker
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
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
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what… — Viswanathan Anand
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
Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules… — Garry Kasparov
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
The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess. — Lodewijk Prins
For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. — Unknown Author
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz
I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but… — Steve Vai
A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the… — Frank Gambale
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing. — Joe Satriani
I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied. — Julian Bream
For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. — Scott Henderson
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you. — Nuno Bettencourt

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