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Chess Quotations
In the Notes
He is a superior man who can watch a game of chess, not
saying a word. – Jan Pot
Necessary. Any other move loses to 1 ... b6. – Amos Burn (on why he played
1.g3 against John Owen, the inventor of the Owen defense)
Misfortune is clearly coming up the avenue, but this move saves the
unwelcome visitor from knocking at the door.
– William Norwood Potter
If our eyes told us there was nothing better to be done than this, we should
sternly ask them if they ever heard of Ananias. But of course very often our
eyes can be right and we can be wrong. – William Norwood Potter
This is throwing the soup overboard altogether, and Black dispatches himself
happily. – William Norwood Potter
There is a strong taste of Prussic acid about this move. – William Norwood
Potter
And now Hope says she has an appointment elsewhere. – William Norwood Potter
This game, now an obvious draw, was prolonged for 45 moves. Winawer should
make his pedantic experiments at home and not insist on his opponents taking
part in such uninteresting twaddle. – William Norwood Potter
Steinitz condemns this sacrifice as unsound. We hope this condemnation will
be a source of consolation to those who fall victims to it. Equally soothing
no doubt, was the dictum of the learned advocate who informed his client
that he could not be put in the stocks. If the legs of the latter testified
to the contrary, so much the worse for the legs. – William Norwood Potter
The Tournament Opthalmia has evidently set in. – William Norwood Potter
Just the kind of blunder with which this very wretched specimen of a game
ought to finish. – William Norwood Potter
Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he
makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head.
– Siegbert Tarrasch
White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to
think up the moves himself. – Siegbert Tarrasch
A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly
revived: what if... what if for me The Variation is not dead? If The
Variation is alive?! – Lev Polugaevsky
I wasn't sure what square to take the rook to. Because there were three
alternatives (e8, d8 and c8), I decided to go for the middle one. – Jan
Timman
My opponent should have considered that a player of my experience and
strength could never allow such a move if were good.
– Jose R. Capablanca (on a powerful looking move made against him)
A diabolical concoction! Alekhine serves up his b-pawn, but if White
partakes, he dies of indigestion. – Lev Alburt
I have not returned from Hell empty-handed! – Kelly Atkins (on coming out of
a long, wild tactical melee with a material advantage)
Now I have the pawn and the compensation. – Roman Dzindzichashvili
And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should
have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated. – Hans
Kmoch
It gradually becomes clear that White has no plan and merely concerns
himself with developing his pieces. You might have been able to play that
fifty years ago, but nowadays, when every master makes a plan after the
first six to eight moves of the game, there is no better way of getting into
a cramped and passive position than thinking of development alone. – Mikhail
Botvinnik (on a game vs. Sokolsky)
Backing up for a running jump, the initiative has passed to Black. – David
Bronstein
A flaccid idea that justifies Black's play. – Yasser Seirawan
Oops. As Black wins a piece after 17...Qxb5, Bogoljubow decided to switch
fully to his breakfast. – Richard Forster (on a game Bogoljubow resigned in
his match against Spielmann. He'd arrived late for the game and played the
opening very quickly while finishing his breakfast)
One of my favorite annotations is: All pieces participate in the attack! –
Bent Larsen
Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess
notation, +-. – Mark Dvoretsky
In this game, there occurs almost a continuity of brilliancies, every one of
which bears the stamp of intuitive genius that could have been little
assisted by calculations, as the combination-point arises only at the very
end of the game. – Wilhelm Steinitz (on the Immortal Game)
Games like this always remind me of the teachings of the Puritans in
pre-Revolutionary America. Remember how they'd preach that sinners hung by a
slender thread over perdition's boiling cauldron of eternal damnation? Sort
of describes my position to a "T", I think. – David Surratt (on a CC game he
was playing)
Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play
next. – Bobby Fischer (on delaying his resignation)
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