Chess Quotes

I enjoy reading the many chess quotes out there from great and not so great players through out history. Feel free to share. I'd love to hear some new ones.

Q: what is the object of playing a gambit opening?

A: to acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of loosing the game.

-Tarrash

In the opening a master should play like a book,in the middlegame he should play like a magician,in the endgame he should play like a machine.
-Spielmann

When I play white I win because I am white. When I play black I win because I am Bogulyubov

-Efim Bogulyubov

We like to think. – Gary Kasparov (on why he and Karpov get into time trouble so often)

heres one for tomtom

I want to win, I want to beat everyone, but I want to do it in style! – Garry Kasparov

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
heres one for tomtom

I want to win, I want to beat everyone, but I want to do it in style! – Garry Kasparov

The pin is mightier than the sword
-Reinfeld

I quote all the quotes that were quoted on:

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
I quote all the quotes that were quoted on:

Thread 111326

It's alright these things go around in cirlces all the time.

It's just that one was just 6 weeks ago so I remembered it.

I've got a new one.

"Endings are for wimps who don't know how to win a Middle Game."

Greenpawn, May 2009.

I thought this one was cute and clever.

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