Chess Quote by Pal Benko Download Open image “I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.” — Pal Benko ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Education Endgame Player Problem Study Urges
“Much of what I have learned, as well as much of my intellectual enjoyment, has come through problem solving. Through the years, I've found… — Frederick Mosteller Copy Share Image
In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of… — Art Farmer Copy Share Image
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study. — Ashraf Barhom Copy Share Image
I often deliberately overwhelm my players. If I give them 10 things a day and they learn four of them, I'm happier than if… — Julian Nagelsmann Copy Share Image
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory,… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got. — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves. — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position. — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher. — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
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