"The pleasure to be derived from a chess……" — Richard Reti
"The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life."
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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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It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent,…
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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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