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Chess Coach Inspirational Quotes (42)

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Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.
Lev Polugaevsky
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Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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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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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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I only think well when my mind is calm.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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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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As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
Mark Dvoretsky
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Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.
Mark Dvoretsky
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There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.
Eduard Gufeld
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Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.
Lev Polugaevsky
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Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
Mikhail Botvinnik
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It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.
Lev Polugaevsky
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First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.
Lev Polugaevsky
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When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.
Mark Dvoretsky
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Torbjorn (Hansen, Magnus Carlsen's first teacher) himself went from 2104 to 2204 in rating during the year he trained with Magnus. This reflects the experience I have had. One learns nearly as much from teaching others.
Simen Agdestein
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Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
Mikhail Botvinnik
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