Chess Quotes - Page 4

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.

Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Chess is a natural cerebral high.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

Chess is a meritocracy.

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

Chess is the art of analysis.

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.