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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 13:58:50 GMT -5
I've got a number of these. Add em' if you got em'...
“…winning is no trick at all if you can intimidate the opponent with dire menaces before the game. An even simpler way would be to shoot him and win by default. It is clear then that there is not much scope left for psychology, if our only weapons are to be moves.”
Ariel Mengarini –
Predicament in 2 Dimensions
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
Emo Philips
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:26:18 GMT -5
"By some ardent enthusiasts, chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be what human nature most delights in - a fight."
– Emanuel Lasker
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:30:15 GMT -5
"If drink is the curse of the working classes and work is the curse of the drinking classes then chess is the curse of the thinking classes."
– J. Ross
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:34:40 GMT -5
"Chess is 99 percent tactics." – Richard Teichmann
"Chess is 99 percent calculation." – Andrew Soltis
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:35:49 GMT -5
"Chess is the greatest game ever invented, because it only looks like a game."
– Scott Kerns
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:37:07 GMT -5
"Chess is a beautiful mistress to whom we keep coming back, no matter how many times she rejects us."
– Bent Larsen
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:37:34 GMT -5
"Chess is not a game but a disease."
– Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:42:43 GMT -5
"Generally speaking, most chess players are boring, self-centered, money-oriented, poorly educated overgrown adolescents I couldn't care less about. With some exceptions, that includes the Linares crowd and all of the world's top twenty."
– Alex Yermolinsky
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:49:09 GMT -5
"Place the contents of the chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet - and you get the style of Steinitz."
– Henry Bird
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:50:52 GMT -5
"Fame, I have already. Now I need the money."
– Wilhelm Steinitz
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:55:21 GMT -5
"I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake."
– Emanuel Lasker
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 14:58:39 GMT -5
"Some of Marshall's most sparkling moves look at first like typographical errors."
– William Napier
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:02:05 GMT -5
"Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue."
– Richard Reti
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:03:48 GMT -5
"I make errors, therefore I am!"
– Saviely Tartakower
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Post by Wookiee on Mar 20, 2006 15:04:53 GMT -5
"Why must I lose to this idiot?!"
– Aaron Nimzowitsch
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