"A computer beat me in chess, but it was no match when it came to kickboxing"
Comedian Emo Philips
For all those who plays Fritz and get frustrated...
This one too..
"I love all positions. Give me a difficult positional game, I will play it. Give me a bad position, I will defend it. Openings, endgames, complicated positions, dull draws, I love them and I will do my very best. But totally won positions, I cannot stand them."
Hein Donner, Clubblad DD, 1950
Originally posted by pazmo7Yeah Donner is great for quotes. One of my favourites:
This one too..
"I love all positions. Give me a difficult positional game, I will play it. Give me a bad position, I will defend it. Openings, endgames, complicated positions, dull draws, I love them and I will do my very best. But totally won positions, I cannot stand them."
Hein Donner, Clubblad DD, 1950
"Love is: trying your whole life to teach your wife to play chess."
More here
http://tom-chivers.blogspot.com/2006/05/after-games.html
for the minority who might be interested in my review of his book.
George: "Well, you got no place to go. I'll tell you what your problem is: You brought your queen out too fast. What do you think? She's one of these feminists looking to get out of the house? No, the queen is old fashioned... Likes to stay home. Cook. Take care of her man. Make sure he feels good." --From Seinfeld
I have 2 chess related quotes: -
Me [after losing]: - ok, were did I go wrong?
Grandad [expert lvl player] : - "my boy, where you went wrong was to learn the game in the first place, now you will spend all your life moving lumps of wood slowly, well, after 30 years you will come to realise lumberjacks get paid more"
^ perhaps it was the way my grandad said it, but whatever the reason, I found it funny.
and the quote -
"when the game is over, the king and pawn go back in the same box."
Copied verbatim from ourosboros post in the French Defense clan forums....
I've just received Mikhail Tal's autobiography in which he pretends to be participating in an interview with a chess journalist. I thought that this snippet was funny.
CHESS JOURNALIST: Did you ever head for a draw from the very first move?
CHESS PLAYER: In all my life, only once. In th 1955 USSR Team Championship Semi-final, playing White against Korchnoi, after the moves 1 e4 e6 2 d2 d5, I captured on d5. I was terribly ashamed, and from that time I swore: to play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess.
Originally posted by zebanoObviously u mean d4 not d2. Yeah the french exchange has a reputation for being extremely drawish. Perhaps the most drawish opening in chess.
Copied verbatim from ourosboros post in the French Defense clan forums....
I've just received Mikhail Tal's autobiography in which he pretends to be participating in an interview with a chess journalist. I thought that this snippet was funny.
CHESS JOURNALIST: Did you ever head for a draw from the very first move?
CHESS PLAYER: In all my life, only o ...[text shortened]... I swore: to play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess.