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Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.
Johnny Moss
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The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.
Joshua Waitzkin
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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout
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Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.
Anne Bronte
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I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick
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Be a harsh critic of your own wins.
Vasilios Kotronias
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Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.
Vasily Smyslov
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No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.
Vasily Smyslov
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My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.
Vasily Smyslov
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In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.
Vasily Smyslov
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Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't understand myself.' This relates to my game: I didn't understand anything!
Vassily Ivanchuk
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Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.
Tom Cruise
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Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
Viktor Korchnoi
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All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
Viktor Korchnoi
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The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
Viktor Korchnoi
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The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
Viktor Korchnoi
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi
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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
Viktor Korchnoi
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As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.
Viktor Korchnoi
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It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
Viktor Korchnoi
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Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
Viktor Korchnoi
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About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition. So that means the chess master or someone who has really thought about it and given themselves feedback on a particular activity for at least 10,000 hours or more.
Sheena Iyengar
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Chess is 99 percent calculation.
Andrew Soltis
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Genius is a starry word but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
Andrew Soltis
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