Originally posted by allosteryActually, Bobby was quoted by Time as saying, "All I can do is play chess.....but I do that rather well."
Reuben Fine has some good ones, but Fischer was great for his smack talk:
"My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration."
"I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like ...[text shortened]... thing."
I love those quotes. Makes him sound like the contender in a heavyweight fight.
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Read an anecdote about Capablanca somewhere. He was in a tournament in the US. A fellow Cuban brings him to the board the former is playing and asks in Spanish, "what would you do in a position like this?"
Capablanca responds in English and with a raised voice, "I would not get into a position like this!"
Originally posted by diskamylI thought Rauzer was the guy who came up with that.
"with 1.e4!, I win." Fischer.
Some others (paraphrased because I cant remember them exactly)
"Always place your rook behind the passed pawn, except when it is not correct to do so"- Siegbert Tarrasch (I probably butchered that one)
"The center is the Balkans of the chessboard, fighting can break out there at any time"- Aron Nimzovitch
"Say hello to your president. He really surprised us...turned out to be quite a mighty man. He raped 10 women. I never expected it from him. He surprised all of us. We all envy him." - Vladmir Putin
a quote by him when he was playing a game of chess against former israeli president Moshe Katsav.
Originally posted by KunsooAgreed. Quite ironic considering that Kasparov is now the leader of the Russian opposition, something quite distinct from chess, while Fisher's holed up in Iceland somewhere making random and marginally coherent inflammatory comments against Jewish people. I think the last anyone's heard of him he called a chess TV show to tell them they missed a mate combo. Who's the idiot savant now, eh?
Yeah, now if he was only willing to pony up and put his moves where his mouth is. Instead, he hasn't played a professional game since 1972 unless you count the lame match against Spaasky in the 1990s.
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Originally posted by Kunsoohehe, like that one, especially in context:
"Why must I lose to this idiot?!!!!!"
-Nimzovich
Nimzovich was playing his name-sake opening in a Berlin tourney, his oponent played the interesting Saemisch Variation. Upon losing that game he jumped onto the talbe shout the quote "Why must I lose to this idiot." Interestingly enough, Saemish was his oponent in that game...who's the idiot now!
I like one I heard at my chess club: "Pawns equal queens." This was said when the teacher asked a 410 why he was so happy with a pawn up position. In the next game, the master won the students queen for 2 pawns and said, "Pawns equal queens, so you must be winning?" hehe, that shut him up.