Chess Quotes
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.
Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent
We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
