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New Additions - Part Six New quotes that we haven't even had time to categorize
yet! To be creative, to be adventurous, to exhibit flair, is no excuse for not studying hard. The truth is exactly the opposite. You have to work constantly at your game, at your openings and endings. A deep analysis is necessary. Chess is not a fixed or static body of knowledge. It's dynamic. Even the books I've written on chess and the annotations I've made on my own matches are not set in stone. I keep updating them. There must be a constant questioning of old ideas, even one's own. – Garry Kasparov I always play carefully and try to avoid unnecessary risks. I consider my method to be right as any superfluous daring runs counter to the essential character of chess, which is not a gamble but a purely intellectual combat conducted in accordance with the exact rules of logic. – Jose Raul Capablanca Chess is my world. Not a house, nor a castle where I can hide from life's troubles, but precisely a world. A world where I can express myself. – Mikhail Tal In my opinion, the process of chess is based essentially on interlinking exchanges. The objective of these interlinking exchanges is a relative gain of material or of positional value. – Mikhail Botvinnik Do you know my theory of how Capablanca played? He always tried to exchange one bishop, so that he should have no problems about how to arrange his pawn chain. Then he exchanged one rook, if possible. Then he had no problems about which rook to place on the only open file. – David Bronstein For in the entire chess universe there is nothing more patient than an immovable object. Petrosian - a short, swarthy Armenian with a Nixonesque five o’clock shadow - had one of the lowest centers of chess gravity ever known. His match strategy was to squat on the world title much as an amateur wrestler spreads his arms and legs on a mat and challenges his opponent to dislodge him. – Larry Parr I don't think about my place in chess history. It’s not a good way to think. I want to play chess well, win and play good games. But this doesn't bother me. – Vladimir Kramnik This is the way I play. I always search for the best move, but this way there is a chance to lose. A chance for greatness and a chance for disaster. – Garry Kasparov I don’t fear any opponent, only myself. When I’m in good form I’m not afraid of anybody. When I’m in bad form, I can lose to anybody. – Anatoly Karpov Alekhine is a player I've never really understood; yet, strangely, if you've seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all. He always wanted a superior center; he maneuvered his pieces towards the King's-side, and around the twenty-fifth move began to mate his opponent. He disliked exchanges, preferring to play with many pieces on the board. His play was fantastically complicated, more so than any player before or since. In his twenties he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties. But he had great imagination; he could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history. – Bobby Fischer
If you wish to achieve results, select a born enemy and attempt to
"chastise" him by toppling him from his pedestal.... Tarrasch, to me,
always meant mediocrity; it is true that he was a very strong player, but
all his views, his sympathies and antipathies, and above all his inability
to conceive any new idea - all this clearly attested to the full mediocrity
of his cast of mind. I myself, who paid homage to genius, could in no
way be reconciled to the fact that mediocrity should stand as the leader of
the dominant school! This fact, for me, was a veritable outrage! –
Aaron Nimzowitsch
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