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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
Richard Reti
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Chess Player
Chess
Decision
Games
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We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature
Rudolf Spielmann
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Chess Player
Fascination
Passion
Sacrifice
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No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
Samuel Reshevsky
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Chess Player
Play
Progress
Style
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First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
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Chess Player
Success
Games
Player
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Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Chess Player
Inspiring
Capable
Chess
Evil
Good Believe Game
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During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
Alexander Alekhine
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Chess Player
Beast
Chess
Strategy
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Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
Anatoly Karpov
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Chess Player
Foundation
Pawns
Soil
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Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
Anatoly Karpov
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Chess Player
Chess
Las Vegas
Vegas
Beautiful Place
Great Beautiful Beautiful Place
Great Place
More And More
Plan
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My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
Anatoly Karpov
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Chess Player
Chess
Geography
Map
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But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.
Miguel Najdorf
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Chess Player
Games
Perfection
Play
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Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Chess Player
Book
Memorization
Variation
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I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.
Paul Morphy
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Chess Player
Belief
Chess
Devoted
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... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
Siegbert Tarrasch
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Chess Player
Imagination
Chess
Exercise
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Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Chess Player
Believe
Games
Player
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As you get stronger, you learn to maintain the position against higher rated players. This comes with experience.
Hikaru Nakamura
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Chess Player
Rated
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Magnus Carlsen
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Chess Player
Chess
Different
Player
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
Bobby Fischer
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Chess Player
Chess Game
Mind
Training
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The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
Paul Morphy
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Chess Player
Chess
Gentleman
Play
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Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
Samuel Reshevsky
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Chess Player
Chess
Player
Tactics
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Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.
Hikaru Nakamura
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Chess Player
Computers
Uses
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It's interesting to find new things with the game. It's fun finding new positions, new openings and new strategies.
Hikaru Nakamura
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Chess Player
New Things
Finding
Openings
Positions
Strategies
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I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.
Hikaru Nakamura
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Chess Player
Growing Up
Math
Studied
Liked
Least
One Of The Things
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Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
Siegbert Tarrasch
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Chess Player
Chess
Intellectual
Pleasure
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Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
Viswanathan Anand
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Chess Player
Four
Games
Lasts
Nerves
Preparedness
Steady
Condition
Requires
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Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.
Jose Raul Capablanca
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Chess Player
Men
Games
Winning
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I believe that for the audience the best way to give the commentating is to avoid going into the deep, deep details.
Judit Polgar
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Chess Player
Best Way
Best Believe I Believe
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
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Chess Player
Beautiful
Powerful
Thinking
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi
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Chess Player
Chess
Elements
Flaws
Lost
Nobility
Element
Won
Flaw
Human Element
Matches
Reasons
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We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
Viswanathan Anand
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Chess Player
Chess
Levels
Participants
Player
Want
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The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.
Alexei Shirov
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Chess Player
Time
Games
Play
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I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
Anatoly Karpov
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Chess Player
Opportunity
Mistake
Winning
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You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
Mikhail Tal
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Chess Player
Dark
Opponents
Psychology
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It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
Viswanathan Anand
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Chess Player
Games
Long
Play
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Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
Vladimir Kramnik
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Chess Player
Mistake
Objectivity
Understanding
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Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Boris Spassky
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Chess Player
Chess
Enormous
Familiarity
Fischer
Immense
Literature
Ussr
Bobby
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Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.
David Bronstein
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Chess Player
Battle
Chess
Mind
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Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
David Bronstein
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Chess Player
Success
Games
Player
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In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.
Hikaru Nakamura
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Chess Player
Accepted
Chess
Different
Little Bit
Little
Everyone
Bit
Oddball
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Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.
Lev Polugaevsky
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Chess Player
Analysis
Chess
Player
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
Magnus Carlsen
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Chess Player
Careers
Chess
Thinking
Anything Else
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
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Chess Player
Okay
People
Game
Lose
Merciless
Opponent
Plays
Some
Some People
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Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
Mikhail Tal
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Chess Player
Girl
Imagination
Chess
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The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
Anatoly Karpov
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Chess Player
Capablanca
Chess
Opinion
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I was never invited to the White House. They invited that Olympic Russian gymnast - that little Communist, Olga Korbut.
Bobby Fischer
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Chess Player
Communist
Gymnast
House
Invited
White
White House
Olympic
Russian
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The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.
Boris Spassky
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Chess Player
Chess
Mobility
Pawns
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Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.
David Bronstein
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Chess Player
Kings
Dark
Squares
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Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
George Koltanowski
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Chess Player
Chess
Evidence
Goddess
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Most strong players are completely self-centered.... They are blind to how other people feel or else simply don't care.
Joel Lautier
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Chess Player
Player
Self
Strong
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None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
Jose Raul Capablanca
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Chess Player
Chess
Majority
Player
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I have no problem with other women, but if I had played against ladies there would be a huge gap between the two of us.
Judit Polgar
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Chess Player
No Problem
Gap
Ladies
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