The only good Rook is a working Rook! Samuel Reshevsky More Quotes by Samuel Reshevsky More Quotes From Samuel Reshevsky Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience. Samuel Reshevsky inexperience player chess It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame. Samuel Reshevsky player winning chess No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics. Samuel Reshevsky progress style play Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth. Samuel Reshevsky knights taken sleep Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. Samuel Reshevsky mind chess memories By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves. Samuel Reshevsky games time moving The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is. Samuel Reshevsky knights long lying My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian Samuel Reshevsky humour style chess Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating. Samuel Reshevsky tactics player chess What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded. Samuel Reshevsky retarded pawns weak We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess. Samuel Reshevsky tactics opposites art
