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Chess Composer Inspirational Quotes (722)

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I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
Alfred de Musset
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Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.
Paul Keres
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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
Vladimir Nabokov
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A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
Vladimir Nabokov
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In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.
Vasily Smyslov
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.
Mikhail Tal
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The word of Sin is Restriction
Aleister Crowley
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I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
Vladimir Nabokov
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If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be
Vladimir Nabokov
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I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
Mikhail Tal
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Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I think that the FIDE leaders have to reconsider the current drawing rules - their advantages aren't very clear, but their shortcomings are obvious. Artificial drawing of the lots is detrimental for everyone.
Mikhail Tal
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Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
Vladimir Nabokov
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You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
Pal Benko
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The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.
Aleister Crowley
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The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
Aleister Crowley
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I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
Aleister Crowley
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