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I like chess quotes, so I thought I'd start a thread where everyone can add their favourites. Im going to try and keep it running until you all have nothing new to add!

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Originally posted by NZDrifter
I like chess quotes, so I thought I'd start a thread where everyone can add their favourites. Im going to try and keep it running until you all have nothing new to add!
Of the USCF magazine "Chess Life"...

"Isn't Chess Life an oxymoron?"

This is from my wife.

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When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov

-Efim Bogoljubov

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I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot!!!!
-Nimzovich

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lol yer that my favourite. Sorry to be pedantic, but I believe he said "why must I lose to this idiot!?"
Apparently he had jumped up on to the table when he said it. lol nutcase.

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Take your pick...

http://www.chess-poster.com/english/notes_and_facts/chess_quotes.htm


enjoy!

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"When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic." -GM John van der Wiel

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“There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine”
-Mikhail Tal

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"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold" - poet WB Yeats on hypermodernism.

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Savielly Tartakower, on the course of a chess game : -
" A chess game can usually be divided into three parts, tha opening, the middle game, and the end game. During the opening you play to establish an advantage. In the middle game you try to turn the advantage into a winning position. The endgame is when you realize you are going to lose."

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"All I want to do, ever, is play chess" Bobby Fischer

Ironic since he eventually quit playing chess.

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“Let the perfectionist play postal”
(Yasser Seirawan)
Seems applicable here.

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Mikhail Tal said something on the lines of


"I've spent my money on cigarettes, drink and women. The rest i've mostly wasted"


This isn't an exact quote but its essentially what he said.

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My favorite is of Tal's when immediately after winning the world blitz cup in 1988 he quipped,
"I can't wait till next year when I can become the new ex-champion!".

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"A disturbance of material equality often mentally upsets the fortunate possessor of the extra material."
Alexander Alekhine