I keep finding the same chess quotes on one website after another. I wonder if you would care to assist in the creation of a list of new chess quotes, based on passages that you have discovered in your books and which have never (to your knowledge) appeared on a web site. Please include the title of the book along with the quote, so that the rest of us have the option of reading the passage in context. Maybe we can create something for the ages! Just to start things off, I will provide the first two:
"The endeavour by the players, each to achieve control by means that vision reveals, is, in reality, a struggle by each mind against its own limitations. Always the Chess player is playing against himself. . . . The nature of the effort is most easily recognized when the mind fails to grasp the whole completely. Then we have error--the grasp of the insufficient--and because of the wealth of possibility in the matrix of the Chessboard, a degree of error is almost always manifesting itself, even in the play of the greatest masters. . . . even when seeing much, the master is endeavouring to see more" --Gerald Abrahams, "The Chess Mind," p. 22.
"Whereas in the offensive on the Queen's side one must husband and save one's resources, when it comes to an attack on the King one should spare nothing. The objective in a Queen's wing-attack is to win material advantages; the aim in an attack on the King is to deliver checkmate. One can sacrifice all the pieces and still give checkmate with one solitary pawn."--Keres and Kotov, "The Art of the Middle Game," p. 31.
Originally posted by Dodger11'Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem' was what older chess players used to say to young upstarts.
Nooooooooo000000000!! Now I'm being stalked. As Capablanca once said to Alexander Alekhine: "dooOOO00D! Yuo are teh suuuuuuck at chest, Alekhine's Defense is teh retarted, w00t, w00t!!!"