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Chess Composer Inspirational Quotes (722)

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I only think well when my mind is calm.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
Aleister Crowley
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I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
Aleister Crowley
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I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
Vladimir Nabokov
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
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Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
Vladimir Nabokov
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If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
Alfred de Musset
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Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.
Jan Timman
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The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much I just do.
Raymond Smullyan
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She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.
Mikhail Tal
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If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?
Aron Nimzowitsch
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Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
Aleister Crowley
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Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.
Pal Benko
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Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.
Aleister Crowley
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The clock is just as much a part of the game as the board and pieces, and losing because of time-trouble is no different to losing because of weak play -- it's still a zero on the score-sheet.
John Nunn
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To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
Aleister Crowley
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
Alfred de Musset
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It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
Aleister Crowley
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
Alfred de Musset
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The only truth is love beyond reason.
Alfred de Musset
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