"Yes, I have played a blitz game once.……" — Mikhail Botvinnik

"Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929."

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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34 Quotes by Mikhail Botvinnik

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Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in…
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
Chess is the art of analysis.
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future…
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those…
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or,…
If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.
In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is…

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More Blitz Quotes

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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess… — Alexander Alekhine
In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop — Vlastimil Hort
I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can… — Jane Curtin
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times,… — Ian Hislop
No Blitz, that's oversimplifying it! — Herman Cain
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to… — Anatoly Karpov
He who analyses blitz is stupid. — Unknown Author
It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I… — Viswanathan Anand
Blitz chess kills your ideas. — Bobby Fischer
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By… — Simon Heffer
During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than… — Prince Philip

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