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After losing a game, [Nimzovich] once jumped up on the table and yelled, "Why must I lose to this idiot."

http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/eccent.htm

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How about this:

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend...........Miguel Najdorf when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder.

Amici Sumus

Feivel the HardcoreFreethinker

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According to this months Chess Life, page 10 Savielly Tartakower is quoted as saying "tactics is what you do when you know what to do, and strategy is what you do when you dont" πŸ˜€

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Originally posted by Bobla45
According to this months Chess Life, page 10 Savielly Tartakower is quoted as saying "tactics is what you do when you know what to do, and strategy is what you do when you dont" πŸ˜€
"Wear did hee goe? Wear did hee goe?"....MAP Knight Leader upon learning his king abdicatedπŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€

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Originally posted by Bobla45
"Wear did hee goe? Wear did hee goe?"....MAP Knight Leader upon learning his king abdicatedπŸ˜€πŸ˜€πŸ˜€
'abdicated' - that implies a degree of choice in the matter - 'deposed' is a more fitting word πŸ˜‰

Rhymester

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"The money and the women."
- Jeremy Silman (when asked what had attracted him to chess)

Here are a bunch of new chess quotes.
http://www.chessville.com/misc/Quotes/New_Additions_Part_2.htm

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Originally posted by Bobla45
According to this months Chess Life, page 10 Savielly Tartakower is quoted as saying "tactics is what you do when you know what to do, and strategy is what you do when you dont" πŸ˜€
Here's a variation on this one:

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.
- Gerald Abrahams

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Originally posted by SirLoseALot
'Chess,like love,like music,has the power to make men happy'.Tarrasch.
I like this one from the immediately preceding sentence in Tarrasch's book:

"I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess"