Alexander Kotov Quotes about Chess

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

Chess, Genius, Fischer

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

Alexander Kotov

Play, Chess, Strategy

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Alexander Kotov

Games, Topography, Chess

"The Art of the Middle Game".

Time trouble is blunder time.

Alexander Kotov

Time, Chess, Trouble

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

Alexander Kotov

Art, Artist, Chess

The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.

Alexander Kotov

Training, Typical, Chess

The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.

Alexander Kotov

Teaching, Chess, Originality