marshfield area chess association

"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
and the player on the other side is hidden from us"
- Thomas Huxley

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"Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation"
- Max Euwe

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"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves"
- Bobby Fischer

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"Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like
Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game"
- Nigel Short

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"Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events"
- Benjamin Franklin

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"Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!"
- Aaron Nimzowitsch

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"Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess.
The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics
praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess
is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the
poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to
music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter"
- Reuben Fine

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"I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess.
Others give only 2 percent"
- Bobby Fischer

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"Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders"
- Savielly Tartakower

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"Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack"
- Wilhelm Steinitz

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"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake"
- Savielly Tartakover

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"Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates
as your body does. You can't separate body from mind"
- Bobby Fischer

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"Of Chess it has been said that life is not long
enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess"
 - William Ewart Napier

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"Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move"
- Chinese proverb

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"You cannot play at Chess if you are kind-hearted"
- French Proverb

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"It's just you and your opponent at the board
and you're trying to prove something"
 - Bobby Fischer

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"The Pawns are the soul of the game"
- Francois Andre Danican Philidor

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"Without error there can be no brilliancy"
- Emanuel Lasker

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"Chess is like war on a board"
- Bobby Fischer

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"Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!"
- Renaud and Kahn

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"Chess is mental torture"
- Garry Kasparov

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"Many have become Chess Masters,
no one has become the Master of Chess"
- Siegbert Tarrasch

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"You have to have the fighting spirit. You have
to force moves and take chances"
- Bobby Fischer

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"Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!"
- Stephan Gerzadowicz