Quotes by Chess I often play a move I know how to refute. Bent Larsen play chess moving One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried, there usually are still opportunities left for initiating action in another sector. Bent Larsen action chess opportunity Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary. Bent Larsen boss literature chess The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master Bent Larsen essentials chess success In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed. Bent Larsen variation chess interesting The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are. Betty Furness games chess football Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. Blaise Pascal gymnasiums mind chess The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers. Bob Costas league games chess You are never too old to play chess! Bobby Fischer play chess I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all. Bobby Fischer secret chess needs Blitz chess kills your ideas. Bobby Fischer blitz chess ideas I like to make them squirm. Bobby Fischer psychology chess Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up. Bobby Fischer chess kids people Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all Bobby Fischer genius chess In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings. Bobby Fischer champion player chess Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact. Bobby Fischer psychology chess facts Chess demands total concentration Bobby Fischer demand chess success The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way. Bobby Fischer champion chess world You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know. Bobby Fischer memorization chess book Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me. Bobby Fischer opponents losing chess «1234567891011»