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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
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Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and…
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The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
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Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to…
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The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While…
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Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of…
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All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
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The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
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As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried…
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It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such…
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
— Viktor Korchnoi
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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness…
— Elie Wiesel
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Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast…
— Ryan Kwanten
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Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I…
— Emile M. Cioran
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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they…
— Blaise Pascal
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Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
— Michael Gruber
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Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
— Clive Barker
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In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up…
— Victor Hugo
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