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The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is. by David Bronstein

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

David Bronstein
essence chess thinking

It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

David Bronstein
tuning purpose chess
There just isn't enough televised Chess by David Letterman

There just isn't enough televised Chess

David Letterman
humour enough chess

What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.

David Norwood
girl chess needs
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically de... by Dawid Janowski

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

Dawid Janowski
should games chess
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins.... by Dominic Lawson

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.

Dominic Lawson
conscience winning chess

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

Donald E. Westlake
three chess writing

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

Drake
play chess cards
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen... by E. M. Forster

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

E. M. Forster
house chess character
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will... by Edmar Mednis

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

Edmar Mednis
learning skills chess
Your practical results will improve when you play what you know,... by Edmar Mednis

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

Edmar Mednis
play chess success

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

Edmar Mednis
understanding player chess

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

Edmar Mednis
want chess time

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

Edgar Allan Poe
reflection games chess

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

Edgar Allan Poe
analogies player chess
The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance. by Efim Bogoljubov

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

Efim Bogoljubov
chess book people

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

Efim Geller
sacrifice player chess

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

Efim Geller
vulnerable winning chess
Without error there can be no brilliancy by Emanuel Lasker

Without error there can be no brilliancy

Emanuel Lasker
errors chess beauty

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.

Emanuel Lasker
problem chess might
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