See there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotionħ)Methodical thinking is of more use in chess thanĨ)A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills meĩ)Place the contents of the chess box in a hat, shake them up Through from time to time in lieu of an offense think ofĦ)Could we look into the head of a chess player, we should “You can’t play chess if you’re groggy from pills” - Kasparov –ġ)Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephantĢ)Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have aģ)Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is decliningĤ)Think not of defense as drudgery one is forced to suffer “Winning isn’t everything… but losing is nothing” - Unknown In the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted,

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“The older I grow, the more I value Pawns” - Keres – chess quotes “The first principle of attack–Don’t let the opponent develop” - Anonymous “The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is” - David Bronstein – “The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature The player on the other side is hidden from us” - Thomas Huxley “One bad move nullifies forty good ones” - Horowitz – “Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess” – Irving Chernev “If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he’s worse off” - Unknown – “Creating an undesired stalemate is the height of stupidity” - Anonymous – “Chess is the gymnasium of the mind” - Paaascal – “Chess is mental torture” - Kasparov (Chess Champion) – “Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time” - George Bernard Shaw –

Kasparov chess quotes