Top 8 Quotes by Irving Chernev

Every Chess master was once a beginner

Learning, Beginners, Playing Chess

Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld (2013). “Winning Chess: Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic”, p.148, Pavilion Books

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

Irving Chernev

Success, Winning, Games

Irving Chernev (1973). “The chess companion: a merry collection of tales of chess and its players, together with a cornucopia of games, problems, epigrams & advice, topped off with the greatest game of chess ever played”, Simon & Schuster

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

Irving Chernev

Moving, Winning, Play

Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”

On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.

Irving Chernev

Justice, Triumph, Doe

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

Irving Chernev

Queens, Kings, Men

Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books