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It's The Royal Game or The Game of Kings if you're reaching for the noble angle. It's a heuristic learning game if you're justifying it for the after-school programs budget. I've taught over 1,100 kids how to play chess at club entry level. Numerous studies demonstrate that regular chess lessons for elementary school children measurably enhance performance in seemingly unrelated scholastic pursuits. Sometimes there's acknowledgement. In 2000, I shared (with librarian Kathy Huffstutter) Sonoma State University's 13th Annual Jack London Award for Excellence in Education, for teaching chess in Santa Rosa's R.L. Stevens Elementary School Dolphin Kings Chess Club – pictured above. Please visit my CHESS PAINTINGS GALLERY for a tour of chess-related oils. And bear in mind that whatever I might have to say about chess, a litany of commentary has paved the way for my contribution... for inspiring this topical homepage idea |
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Whereas the tactician knows what to do when there is something to do, it requires the strategian to know what to do when there is nothing to do. Gerald Abrahams Abrahams was an avid Bridge player. Chess is a matter of vanity. Alexander Alekhine 1892-1946 Fourth World Champion. Treating them to a club show, one of their patrons, C. Ogle reported, "Capablanca never took his eyes off the chorus, Alekhine never looked up from his pocket chess set." Chess is not only logic and knowledge. Alexander Alekhine 1892-1946 Fourth World Champion 1927-35 and 1937-46. He studied "eight hours a day on principle," but losing the title to Euwe had a sobering effect on Alekhine, literally! ...d5 is the antidote for the poison in gambits. Anonymous The elipisis (...) before a move notation indicates that it is a move for the player with the black pieces. The suggestion is that Black should early on move the queen pawn forward two squares. One of the most curious facts found in the bypaths of chess research is the affected dread of brain ruin on the part of men whom the Fates have made absolutely immune from any such calamity. Anonymous Doesn't this sound a bit too recent to be the work of Anonymous? But then Apocryphal didn't seem a likely choice either. "Tell me, how long did it take you to learn to play chess so badly?" "Sir, it's been nights of study and self-denial." Apocryphal For surely, of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable. Assiac I am hopelessly in love with the game. Assiac At chess, before gunpowder, The Queen took only Diagonal steps. W.H. Auden 1907-1973 Poet and man of letters, a hero of the left in the 1930s. His poems, plays, and essays explored psychology, politics, and religion. Best remembered for Poems 1930 and Look, Stranger 1936. In answering the question, "Which is the greater game, Chess or Checkers," I must, in all frankness, favor Chess. Newell W. Banks Blindfold Checker Champion of the World. Chess is a game of courteous aggression. Julian Barnes Writer-player with formidable talent in both arenas. Chess is confrontation. Simon Barnes Chess is a very sexy game. Sally Beauman To free your game, take off some of your adversary's men, if possible for nothing. Captain Joseph Bertin 169?-173? From his The Noble Game of Chess 1735, the first worthwhile chess textbook in the English language. Bertin had 19 "Rules" to follow during play. 16 of them are thoroughly valid to this day. Could we look into the head of a chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion. Alfred Binet 1857-1911 Played dominant role in development of experimental psychology in France. Recorded individual differences by standardized tests. He studied writers, artists, mathematicians, and chess players. Chess is a game for strong people with strong character. Mikhail Botvinnik 1911-1995 Sixth World Champion 1948-57, 1958-59, and 1961-63. He did not smoke, but he played many practice games against heavy smokers just to build up his tolerance! Chess is the art of analysis. Mikhail Botvinnik 1911-1995 Sixth World Champion. From the 1960's on he was keenly involved developing chess playing programs for computers. He was one of the most disciplined analysts. Chess is the art which expresses the beauty of logic. Mikhail Botvinnik 1911-1995 Sixth World Champion. He persuaded Soviet officials to instruct his employer to give him three days off weekly for chess study, so as to insure his chances at the world championship. Chess is one of the sins of pride. John Bromyard Chess is imagination. David Bronstein 1924- One of the four strongest players in the world from 1948-58, in 1951 he scored +5=14-5 proving himself equal against Botvinnik, but losing the world title in accordance with FIDE rules. Chess is work. Walter Browne 1949- Six-time US Champion. His facial contortions during complicated play are testimony to his belief in this statement. When chess is reduced to mere mathematics, chess will lose its charm. Robert J. Buckley It is a game too troublesome for some men's braines, too full of anxiety, all out as bad as study; and besides it is a testy cholericke game and very offensive to him that looseth the Mate. Robert Burton 1577-1640 English author and clergyman who wrote under the pen name Democritus Junior. Quote is from The Anatomy of Melancholy. Chess is... a place where I'm going to enjoy myself. John Cage 1912-1992 Pioneer in aleatory music and other avant garde musical approaches. He invented the "happening," a freeform performance artwork. Chess is not a game but a disease. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1836-1908 British Liberal leader, born in Glasgow; Secretary for War 1886, 1892-95; noted for support of Irish home rule, liberal policy toward Boers, stand against House of Lords. At no time in the history of chess have there been more than fifteen ranking first-class masters, and most of the time ten or twelve would be nearer to the truth. Jose Raul Capablanca 1888-1942 Third World Champion. Cuba's goodwill ambassador to the world, much admired by women for his handsome features and charming demeanor. Today's masters might give Capa pause for thought. Chess is undoubtedly the same sort of art as painting or sculpture. Jose Raul Capablanca 1888-1942 Third World Champion 1921-27. It was said he "never learnt to learn," so much did he dislike book study. His nickname, The Chess Machine, was testimony to his natural talent. I know at sight what a position contains. What could happen? What is going to happen? You figure it out! I know it! Jose Raul Capablanca 1888-1942 Third World Champion. Asked by a player to point out Capablanca when he arrived, Chernev replied, "No, I won't have to. When Capablanca comes in, you will know he is the champion." You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. Jose Raul Capablanca 1888-1942 Third World Champion. Of course, this was probably untrue for Capablanca, who learned to play at age four (simply by watching his father play) and began seriously dominating adults at age 13. "The Eighth Square at last!" she cried... Oh how glad I am to get here! And what is this on my head? Lewis Carroll 1832-1898 Best remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1864 and Through the Looking Glass 1871. He also wrote books on math and logic. What chess has in common with science and fine art is its utter uselessness. Ernst Cassirer 1874-1945 German philosopher, born in Breslau; left Germany 1933; at Yale 1941-44; held use of symbols basic to human culture ('The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms', condensed as 'An Essay on Man'). Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler 1888-1959 The Chicago-born author of many hardboiled realistic detective novels featuring his tough but honest protagonist, Philip Marlowe. Quote is from The Long Goodbye 1953. An ancient writer said that if there were no flowers and moon and beautiful women, he would not want to be born into the world. I might add that, if there were no pen and ink and chess and wine, there was no purpose in being born a man. Chang Chao Chess is the most exciting game in the world. Irving Chernev 1900- New York player and chess bibliophile. He wrote many books conveying a mirthful positive enthusiasm for every aspect of chess. The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca. Irving Chernev 1900- New York player, bibliophile, and author of many entertaining chess books, including his classic 1000 Best Short Games of Chess 1955. He was known as the Believe-It-Or-Not man of chess. Queening a pawn would be a ridiculous performance if we do not understand it chessonymously by esoteric connotations of the meaning on trans-modifications of force or vitality. There is in exotery literally no Queening a pawn in the Science and art of War—nay!—all kinds of struggles. Cho-Yo From his Japanese Chess 1905. Exo-what? Chess is... a mime of the family romance and the Oedipal drama. Alexander Cockburn A peculiar notion. In his Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Death 1974, he writes, "...I had better state the extent of my own proficiency at chess. Minimal." Chess psychologists tend to be "too-deep" thinkers. Chess is an earnest exercise of the mind. Thomas Cogan There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstance, and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play chess. Mortimer Collins There is no other game so esteemed, so profound and so venerable as chess; in the realm of play it stands alone in dignity. Ely Culbertson 1891-1955 Political philosopher and writer. Best remembered for Total Peace 1943 and Must We Fight Russia? 1946. Chess is me. Salvador Dali 1904-1989 Sir Real, himself. Exquisite photo-realistic painting technique combined with surreal imagery characterize Dali's unique art. He claimed he could clearly remember the moment of his conception. Chess is a game of skill for two played with figures or men of different kinds which are moved on a chequered board. Definition Chambers 20th Century Dictionary. Chess is a sport. A violent sport. This detracts from its most artistic connections. One intriguing aspect of the game that does not imply artistic connotations is the geometrical patterns and variations of the actual set-up of the pieces in the combinative, tactical, strategical and positional sense. It is a sad means of expression though—somewhat like religious art—it is not very gay. If it is anything it is a struggle. Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 Surrealist painter, leader in Dada art movement; maybe strongest artist-player of all time. Drew against Frank Marshall in 1930 France-USA match. Won Paris 1932 ahead of Znosko-Borovsky. Chess is the movement of pieces eating each other. Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 His Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 was an early entry in the "motion painting" genre. The description sounds more like PacMan than chess. My attention is so completely absorbed by chess. I play night and day... I like painting less and less. Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968 He interrupted his painting for 20 years to pursue chess! He solved problems on his wedding night! A week later his wife glued the pieces to his board as he slept! They divorced after three months. Chess holds its master in its own bonds – fetters and in some ways shapes his spirit, so that under it the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. Albert Einstein 1879-1955 His general theory of relativity 1916 proposed that gravity is not a force, but a curved field in the space-time continuum that is created by the presence of mass. Got that? The way he plays chess demonstrates a man's whole nature. Stanley Ellin Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good chessplayer. Machgielis "Max" Euwe 1901-1981 Fifth World Champion 1935-37. Chess author. His most important contribution was the Scheveningen Variation in the Sicilian Defense. He was a keen student of chess openings. The chess master today must have courage, a killer instinct, stamina and arrogance. Larry Evans 1932- American International Grandmaster 1957. Won US Open Championship three times 1951, 52, 54. Won U.S. Championship 1951, 1961-2, 1968, 1980. Larry contributes to Chess Life magazine. A man that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket. Fenton Chess is a contest between two men in which there is considerable ego involvement. Reuben Fine 1914-1993 International Grandmaster 1950. Analyst author. His Psychology of the Chess Player 1956 suggests chess may be subliminal homosexuality. Male vanity...or another case of thinking too deeply? The real lives of dazzling brilliant chess geniuses are sometimes hopelessly dull. Reuben Fine 1914-1993 After Alekhine died in 1946, Fine suggested himself and Keres be declared co-champions, since they tied for first at AVRO, a tournament expected to produce a challenger. FIDE declined the offer. Chess is like war. Attributed to Bobby Fischer 1943- Eleventh World Champion. Still fighting that war in 1992, one of Bobby's demands was that the toilet seats in his rooms be raised two inches. Bobby is tall, and his request was met. Chess is life. Robert J. "Bobby" Fischer 1943- Eleventh World Champion 1972-1975. Twenty years and a day later Bobby emerged from retirement to dominate his promised return match against Boris Spassky ,#100 in the world in 1992! This little thing between me and Spassky is bigger than Frazier and Ali. It's the free world against the lying, cheating, hypocritical Russians. Bobby Fischer 1943- Eleventh World Champion. Bobby's fanaticism on this point has been vindicated by the revelations of more than a few ex-Soviet players. Others may talk of the Round Table with its fifty Knights, but I greatly prefer the Square Table with only four Knights. Daniel Willard Fiske 1831-1904 American editor, writer, bibliophile. He willed his chess book collection to the library of Reykjavik, Iceland. The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which presents today features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and the Indus. Daniel Willard Fiske 1831-1904 American editor, writer, bibliophile. Taken by Iceland he wrote Chess in Iceland and Icelandic Literature 1905. His brother Bill wrote dance tunes Chess Polka 1857 and Caissa Quickstep 1859 (Caissa is the goddess of chess). Chess, like love, is infectious at any age. Salo Flohr 1908-1983 International Grandmaster/Arbiter, one of the best eight players in the world in the 1930s. Flohr was an approved challenger to Alekhine's world title, but national events interfered with his funding. Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life. Edward Morgan Forster 1879-1970 English novelist. His most famous works are Howards End 1910 and A Passage to India 1924. "I play the Evans," he said. He personally subjected the then-popular gambit to in-depth analysis. The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 Ardent player. Invented bifocals, lightning rod, pot-belly stove, public libraries, odometer, paved well-lit streets, sewers, the University of Pennsylvania, fire departments, and modern electrical theory. Chess is ludicrously difficult. Stephen Fry British television comedian and author. In his novel The Liar, one of the characters is a chess master. Chess is indeed like life. Stephen Fry Author and television comedian, star of British sitcom Jeeves and Wooster. Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game. A.G. Gardiner The game of chess is the touchstone of the intellect. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 Germany's Shakespeare. Philosophical author of many books, including a four-volume autobiography. Best remembered for Faust 1831. We might escape, ah me! how many a pain, Could we recall bad moves and play again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 After meeting Goethe, Napoleon exclaimed, "Now, there is a man!" Chess is not just a game; it bears an international significance. Jeremy Hanley MP In a 1989 Kasparov simul in the House of Commons this statesman had the white pieces, but lost to the world champion on the 37th move. Chess is an innocent and intellectual amusement after the mind has been engrossed with too much care or study. Hassan of Basra Chess is a game of skill and not of genius. William Hazlitt 1778-1830 English author. His The Spirit of the Age 1825 reliably conveyed the conditions of that era. Before he turned to writing, he studied painting for three years. Chess is a jealous lover. John Healy Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science. Baron Tassilo von Heyderbrand und der Lasa 1818-1899 He was one of the Berlin Pleiades, seven players who published the first German chess magazine. When Bilguer died, Lasa completed his editors duties on Handbuch der Schachspiel 1843. The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895 Foremost British champion of Darwin's theory of evolution. Most remembered for An Introduction to the Classification of Animals 1869. Chess is ouer-wise and Philosophicke a folly. James I 1394-1437 King of Scotland, poet and constitutional reformer; succeeded 1406 while captive in England; released 1424; murdered by rebel nobles. Chess is one of the noblest inventions of the human mind. Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad 1891-1953 British philosopher, born in London, England; professor, University of London, 1930-53 Author of Meaning of Life, Guide to the Philosophy of Morals and Politics, God and Evil. Chess (tshes, n.s.) A nice and abstruse game in which two sets of puppets are moved in opposition to each other. Dr Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 The most famous writer in 18th-century England, chiefly known for his biography of James Boswell. Quote is from his Dictionary of the English Language 1755. It is plain that the unconscious motive actuating the players is not the mere love of pugnacity characteristic of all competitive games, but the grimmer one of father-murder. Ernest Jones Chess is everything – art, science and sport. Anatoly Karpov 1951- Twelfth World Champion 1975-85. He became champion by default when Fischer refused to play. To his credit, he was the most active world champion ever, playing continually even in non-title events. Chess is my life – but my life isn't just chess. Anatoly Karpov 1951- Twelfth World Champion. At Baguio, when the other players saw him in a swimsuit, they were taken aback at the palor of his skin. Behind his back they referred to him as "the fetus." Chess is an art. Garry Kasparov 1963- Thirteenth World Champion 1985 – An interesting comment, considering that his favorite player is Alekhine, the polar opposite to Karpov's more "artistic" choice, the ever-so-natural Capablanca. Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles. Garry Kasparov 1963- Thirteenth World Champion. Like Fischer, Kasparov is deeply political. He is more focussed than Fischer in his approach, and Kasparov will likely become a significant politician later in life. Chess is a gladiatorial contest. Raymond Keene 1948- A solid, positional player who was British Champion in 1971. Chess is an almost perfect combination of art, investigative science, knowledge and inspiration. Raymond Keene 1948- British Champion in 1971. He is the author of several insightful chess books. He has a preference for flank-openings. Chess is a test of wills. Paul Keres 1916-1975 Estonian Champion 1934. Seeded as a candidate for the World Championship in 1965, he lost the quarter-finals to Spassky. His face adorns paper money in Estonia, where he is a national hero. Chess is my life. Viktor Korchnoi 1931- Third strongest in the world after Fischer and Spassky 1967-75. A doggedly tenacious player, he is extremely active in high-category tournaments to the present day. Chess is a beautiful mistress. Bent Larsen 1935- One of the world's ten best players from the late 1950s through the 1960s. Chess is a fight. Emanuel Lasker 1868-1941 Second World Champion 1894-1921. He wrote books on psychology and math, never intending a chess career. Chess did not dominate his life, as it tended to do for so many champions. Chess is an international language. Edward Lasker 1885-1981 International Arbiter 1956. International Master 1963. Engineer author. Schachstrategie 1911 (Chess Strategy 1915) is the first competent methodical teaching approach explaining the whole game. Chess is only a game and not to be classed with...science...or the arts. Emanuel Lasker 1868-1941 Second World Champion. His thesis on geometrical calculus remains pertinent even into the current computer age. Properly taught, a student can learn more in a few hours than he would find out in ten years of untutored trial and error. Emanuel Lasker 1868-1941 Second World Champion. Not recognizing him, a novice gave him queen odds! Lasker threw two games,asserting, "You win because you play without a queen!" So he removed his and won two games! The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful maneuvers of the position player. Emanuel Lasker 1868-1941 Second World Champion. His specialty was math. He wished to employ it to solve free will problems! He wrote a philosophical book on the subject, The Understanding of the Universe 1913. Chess is a cold bath for the mind. Andrew Bonar Law 1858-1923 Wealthy Scot iron merchant and British statesman. Prime Minister 1922. Chess is one long regret. Stephen Leacock 1869-1944 Canadian educator, humorist, professor of political economy, biographer of Dickens and Twain, author of books on history, economics, and political science, and many popular nonsensical sketches. Chess is challenging (but bridge is the stuff of life). Lord Lever 1851-1925 British founder of Lever Brothers soap works with associated companies all over world, and a model industrial village at Port Sunlight near Liverpool; instituted profit-sharing. It is remarkable, and deserves special mention, that the great masters, such as Pillsbury, maroczy and Janowski, play against Lasker as though hypnotized. George Marco Viennese master. Brilliant annotator. He once out-drank Frank Marshall, then beat him soundly in a tournament the next day. Famous for resigning a game while the winning move stared him in the face. Chess is a challenge, a battle. Terry Marsh Former light welterweight boxing champion. At age eleven he was a London schools chess champion. Chess is a game of intellect and character over the open board... chess is a game of life. Frank Marshall 1877-1944 American champion 1906-30, one of the world's ten best players of that time. He dressed like an eccentric Shakespearean actor. He loved only chess and family life, but he liked his brandy as well. Chess is fun. Luke McShane 1984- World Under Ten Boy's Champion 1992. At age 9 he was the youngest FIDE Master ever. Chess is a big time sport. Anthony Miles 1955- An International Grandmaster and contender for the FIDE world championship title in 1995. Chess is most certainly not my life. Tony Miles 1955- First Englishman to become a FIDE International Grandmaster through over-the-board play in 1976. Chess has this in common with making poetry, that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. A.A. Milne 1882-1956 Author of Winnie The Pooh books, adventures of toys belonging to his son Christopher Robin. Also remembered for children's poems When We Were Very Young 1924, and Now We Are Six 1927. Chess is a dromenon. Frank Vigor Morley Chess is eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game. Paul Morphy 1837-1884 Strongest American player in the mid-19th century. In 1858 he defeated three of Europe's leading masters and then retired from chess! He believed it was not a fit occupation for a grown man. It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cogitative faculties of a rabbit. John Mortimer 1923- English barrister, writer, born in London. Chiefly remembered for his popular short stories and TV programs featuring Horace Rumpole, crusty British barrister. Chess yields us, when we need them most, Companions for our loneliness. Mu'Tazz The game possesses a literature which in contents probably exceeds that of all other games combined. Harold James Ruthven Murray 1868-1955 His 900-page masterwork A History of Chess 1913 was 14 years in production. The number of distinct chess book titles in the world probably exceeds 40,000. Chess is a combination of ten games. Miguel Najdorf 1910- Polish International Grandmaster 1950. Hungarian Champion in 1936, he sought asylum in Argentina in 1939. He was one of the world's top ten players in the late 1940s. Chess is too difficult to be a game, and not serious enough to be a science or an art. Attributed to Napoleon 1769-1821 Of his chess skill it might be said that Waterloo was not his only Waterloo. First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy! Aron Isayevich Nimzowitsch 1886-1935 Unnerved by Vidmar's cigaret case, Nimzo protested. "But he isn't smoking," said the arbiter. Nimzo snapped, "You're a master. You must know the threat is much stronger than the execution!" The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. Aron Isayevich Nimzowitsch 1886-1935 Third in the world after Capablanca and Alekhine 1925-30. Founder and chief champion of the hypermodern movement, every serious player reads his My System 1929 and Chess Praxis 1936. The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient. Aron Isayevich Nimzowitsch 1886-1935 Back then the world champion named the stakes a challenger must ante. Nimzo couldn't raise Capablanca's asking price. Alekhine later avoided Nimzo by playing two matches with Bogojulbow. Thou shalt not shilly-shally! Aron Isayevich Nimzowitsch 1886-1935 An insulted opponent sent seconds to offer Nimzo choice of weapons in a duel. Nimzo was a fitness buff and weight lifter. He rolled up his sleeves, flexed, and said, "Fists!" The duel never came to pass. Chess is the most intelligent thing in the universe. David Norwood Pioneer researcher of artificial intelligence. There is a certain nobility about chess that appertains to no other game... to imagine a great player otherwise than respectable is difficult; he gives the impression, while at work, of being a stoic philosopher. James Payn Chess is not a science. Henri Poincare 1854-1912 French mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of science,also a gifted writer of more than 30 books. He used a straightforward style to make his subject easy to understand. When men lose against me, they always have a headache... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man! Susan Polgar 1969- Susan was a Women's World Champion. Susan is opposed to divisive titles, but so long as such honors are accompanied by lucrative financial incentives, she would be remiss to bypass opportunity. In chess, women can have the same results as men. It is not a physical sport, like swimming. When children study arithmetic, they do not learn separately. I would prefer that there be no women's titles. It is not important to be a women's Grandmaster. I am more happy to be a man International Master. Susan Polgar 1969- Eldest daughter of Laszlo Polgar and Klara Alberger. Susan and sisters Sophia and Judith show no signs of predicted "flaws" in the Polgar theory. They continue to improve their performance levels. Our eldest daughter is fifteen years old and an International Master amongst men. If she were a boy, she would be hailed as a genius and given support (trainers and tournaments) so that she could further develop her capabilities. Laszlo Polgar 1946- Hungarian philosopher, authority on chess pedagogy, master coach. His three daughters are subjects in a behavioral experiment which provides extensive support in their pursuit of chess excellence. Chess is just a game. Lajos Portisch 1937- International Grandmaster 1961. Hungarian Champion 1958. One of the world's ten best players in the 1970s. Fortune favors the bold, especially when they are Alekhines. Lodewijk Prins 1913- Dutch International Grandmaster 1982, International Arbiter 1960, national champion 1965. Author of many articles and books on chess, he played in twelve Olympiads 1937-68. Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. Indian Proverb Chess originated in 5th-century India. You cannot play at chess if you are kind-hearted. French Proverb Chess is as much a mystery as women. Cecil John Seddon Purdy 1906-1979 Four-time national Australian champion. International Master 1951, International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster 1953, winner of the first World Correspondence Chess Championship 1950-53. Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf. Cecil John Seddon Purdy 1906-1979 Four-time national Australian champion. International Master 1951. His father-in-law and his son were both champions of Australia. Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. Hans Ree 1944- Four-time Dutch national champion. International Grandmaster 1980. Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and excludes chance. Richard Reti 1889-1929 Hungarian player, theorist, author, and composer. Best remembered for his contribution to the hypermodern school of chess. His Masters of the Chessboard was published just after his death. The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. Richard Reti 1889-1929 Hungarian author and chess problem composer. Pioneer of the hypermodern movement, outlined in his Modern Ideas in Chess 1923. In 1925 he played 25 simultaneous blindfold games. Chess is a game of war. Anthony Saidy & Norman Lessing Authors of the fabulous coffee-table compendium The World of Chess 1974. Saidy has actually dreamed entire games of chess, recording them upon awakening for future publication. Chess is a pursuit crammed with tension and emotion. Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing Their 1974 coffee-table book The World of Chess contains a fine general history of the game, accompanied by many excellent illustrations and photographs. It is a very entertaining read. Chess is the sublimated fight par excellence. Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing Authors of The World of Chess 1974. Lessing was a strong master and a regular presence at New York's Stuyvesant Chess Club for more than forty years. Chess is an exercise full of delights. Arthur Saul Chess is the most interesting game that exists. Lothar Schmidt 1928- German International Grandmaster 1959, International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster 1959, International Arbiter 1975, publisher. Chief Arbiter in the original 1972 Fischer-Spassky match. Chess is a sad waste of brains. Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832 Father of the Historical Novel, best remembered for Ivanhoe. Chess is the art of human reason. Gustavus Selenus 1579-1666 His real identity was Duke Augustus of Luneburg, later Duke of Brunswick. He translated an Italian version of Ruy Lopez into German. Two of his three wives were princesses. Morphy was an artist; and the best way to enjoy an artist is not to dissect him. Philip W. Sergeant Sergeant is chiefly remembered for his book Morphy's Games of Chess 1915, which he freely admitted was based on Lowenthal's earlier works on Morphy. Chess is the most beautiful and reasonable of all games. Mme de Sevigne 1626-1696 The beautiful and witty "Queen of Letter Writers." She wrote over 1,700 letters to her daughter, which profile the character of that era in sharper detail than any history book. Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever. George Bernard Shaw 1856 1950 Irish essayist and playwrite, best remembered for Candida 1897, Caesar and Cleopatra 1901, Man and Superman 1905, and Pygmalion 1913. Nobel prize for literature 1925. Chess is my job and fills the main part of my life. Alexei Shirov One of the strong modern Russian players. Chess is ruthless; you've got to be prepared to kill people. Nigel Short 1965- Became an International Master at age 15. In 1995 Short unsuccessfully challenged Garry Kasparov for the Professional Chessplayers Association World Championship. Chess is the fairest of all games. Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904-1991 Author whose depictions of Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries are all written in Yiddish, the language of his ancestors. Nobel prize for literature 1978. Oure days be dated to be checkmated, With drawttys of deth. John Skelton 146?-1529 English satirical poet; ordained priest 1498, but considered "more fit for stage than pulpit"; made many enemies by fierce invective, broad humor. Chess is a powerful weapon of intellectual culture. Slogan 1924 All-Union Congress of Soviet Union. Chess is a game of bad moves. Andy Soltis 1947- International Grandmaster 1980. He is the New York Post chess columnist and a contributor to Chess Life magazine. He specializes in gathering and publishing all manner of chess trivia. Chess is an art appearing in the form of a game. Soviet Encyclopedia The former Soviet Ministry of Sport ranked chess first among the five major sports. If you do not think it is a sport, it can only be because you have not immersed yourself beyond its shallows. Chess is a game. Boris Spassky 1937- Tenth World Champion 1969-72. Now a French citizen, Boris plays tennis occasionally with his old friend, Bobby Fischer. Fischer is in exile from US authorities and needs all the friends he can get. Chess is like life. Boris Spassky 1937- Tenth World Champion. He is known to be extraordinarily polite, with a very friendly disposition. He is married to a French diplomat and currently lives in Paris. Chess is a blood sport. Jon Speelman 1956- British Champion 1978. He is the author of several very fine chess books. Chess is simply a medium through which concentration and a higher state of mind is achieved. It is like contemplating your navel, only better. It is perhaps a way of making love. Jon Speelman 1956- British Champion 1978. International Grandmaster 1980. Chess is both profoundly trivial and trivially profound... a universe simultaneously closed and unbounded. George Steiner Philosopher and chess writer. Chess problems are like masturbation, but playing chess is like making love. The poets lie about the orgasm, compared to the crescendo of triumph in chess. George Steiner Philosopher and chess writer. Chess is not for timid souls. Wilhelm Steinitz 1836-1900 First World Champion 1886-94. Viennese Champion 1861-62. An early architect of hypermodern methods, he was particularly interested in pawn structure weaknesses. Chess is first of all art. Mikhail Tal 1936-1992 Eighth World Champion 1960-61. Latvian national champion 1953. He was a combinative genius. An intense player with a burning stare, at 50 he won the first World Blitz Chess Championship! Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness. Siegbert Tarrasch 1862-1934 One of the world's four strongest players 1870s-1890s. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. Siegbert Tarrasch 1862 1934 Author of several books on chess. Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. Saviely Grigoryevich Tartakower 1887-1956 At the 1924 New York tournament, he visited the zoo and was charmed by Susie, the orangutan. The next day he played 1.b4 against Maroczy and named this the Orangutan opening. It goes by several other names as well. Chess is the art of battle for the victorious battle of art. Saviely Grigoryevich Tartakower 1887-1956 International Grandmaster 1950. He was eighth or ninth in the world 1926-30. Author of several fine chess books. He was considered a champion of unorthodox style. I now see myself (after fifty years of tournament play) compelled to change my concepts of chess strategy during the years which may still lie ahead. Saviely Grigoryevich Tartakower 1887-1956 International Grandmaster 1950. He wrote chess books and poetry in French, German, and Russian. He had a doctorate in law. He liked gambling. The great master places a knight at e5; checkmate follows by itself. Saviely Grigoryevich Tartakower 1887-1956 Explaining his failure to meet great success in tournament play, he explained that he was "always striving to avoid the well-known openings and taking delight in risky combinations." Chess is 99% tactics. Richard Teichmann 1868-1925 One of the ten best 1892-1912. His appearance was formidable; high forehead, bushy beard, eye patch. Lasker described him as being "like Wotan holding forth in the company of minor gods." Chess is a fine entertainment. Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910 Russia's greatest novelist, best remembered for his massive War and Peace 1869 and Anna Karenina 1877. Chess is the game which reflects most honour on human wit. Voltaire 1694-1778 Pen name of Francois-Marie Arouet, poet, historian, essayist, playwrite, philosopher, wealthy businessman and practical economic reformer. Best remembered for philosophical novel Candide 1759. It is hopeless to try to make a machine to play perfect chess. Norbert Weiner In his Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine 1948, he asserts that in communication theory information is statistical in nature and has to follow the laws of probability. We play chess because we don't know how to play correctly. Norbert Weiner Founded Cybernetics, interdisciplinary science that studies communication and control systems involving living organisms, machines, even social organizations. Pioneered artificial intelligence. Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy. Max Ignaz Weiss 1870-1943 Author/composer who wrote more than a dozen books on problems and the game. The poorest chess player is to be more envied than the most favored servant of the Golden Calf; for the latter grovels all his life long in the mire of materialism; while the former dwells high aloft, in the bright realms of imagination and poetry. Max Ignaz Weiss 1870-1943 Given a Geometric Symbol Positive or a combination of Geometric Symbols Positive which is coincident with the Objective Plane; then, if the Prime Tactical Factor can be posted at the Point of Command, the adverse King may be checkmated. Franklin Young From his book The Grand Tactics of Chess 1896. Say what? It is not a move, not even the best move. that you must seek, but a realizable plan. Eugene Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky 1884-1954 Professional Russian player, music and drama critic. Author of several How to Play Chess books, and perhaps best remembered for How NOT to Play Chess. Chess is the struggle against error. Johann Zukertort 1842-1888 Second in strength after Steinitz 1871-86. He spoke 9 languages, was a fine whist player, skilled swordsman, domino champion of Berlin, and crack pistol shot. He played 6,000 games with Anderssen! |
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