www.eurochess.hu: Chess Quotes It is one thing to be clever (George R. R. Martin) |
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!- David Bronstein The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game - Albert Einstein A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.- Alexander Kotov Many men, many styles: what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win. - Aron Nimzowitsch You can’t overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life. – Garry Kasparov Chess doesn’t drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane. – Bill Hartston The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. - Viktor Korchnoi An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out. - Paul Keres The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts: and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem - Marcel Duchamp To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. - Jose Raul Capablanca On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie: the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite. - Emanuel Lasker |