Quotes by Chess I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! Emanuel Lasker genius player chess Chess is, above all, a fight. Emanuel Lasker fighting chess Without error, there is no brilliancy. Emanuel Lasker errors chess The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions. Emanuel Lasker process chess mean To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification. Emanuel Lasker strategy sound chess The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain. Emanuel Lasker chess brain ideas Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values. Emanuel Lasker endeavour effort chess I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them. Emo Philips play chess men 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. Eric Allin Cornell chess writing school Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess. Eric Bogosian ensemble hard chess I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt. Eric Sykes champion lunch chess The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky etc sacrifice chess Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky mastery mistake chess All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky bases games chess Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky knights player chess ... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky chess numbers ideas The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some sparks of the genius of masters, and in addition some rays of the glory that is the masters. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky rays genius chess It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky characteristics surprise chess All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky player games chess It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky unjust sacrifice chess «56789101112131415»
