"It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake……" — Richard Reti
"It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned. Every player knows that all (or almost all) combinations arise from a recollection of familiar elements."
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14 Quotes by Richard Reti
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Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
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The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of…
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Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.
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It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according…
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by…
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Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or…
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The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the…
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No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.
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We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in…
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A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in…
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Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always…
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The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front…
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