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Chess is a mental torture - Garry Kasparov
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Chess is a beautiful mistress - Bent Larsen
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Chess demands total concentration - Bobby Fischer
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Chess is everything: art, science and sport - Anatoly Karpov
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Every chess master was once a beginner - Chernev
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Why must I lose to this idiot? - Aron Nimzovich
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Help your pieces so they can help you - Paul Morphy
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Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue - Reti
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When in doubt... play Chess! - Tevis
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One bad move nullifies forty good ones - Horowitz
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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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Chess is really ninety nine percent calculation - Soltis
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Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people - Nigel Short
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If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off - Nigel Short
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Chess is the gymnasium of the mine - Blaise Pascal
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Only sissies Castle - Rob Sillars
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Castle early and often - Rob Sillars
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Chess is ninety nine percent tactics - Teichmann
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In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth - Edmar Mednis
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Chess is above all, a fight! - Emanuel Lasker
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Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf - Cecil Purdy
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Chess opens and enriches your mind - Saudin Robovic
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Chess is a cold bath for the mind - Sir John Simon
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Chess is eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game - Paul Morphy
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Chess is imagination - David Bronstein
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it - Wilhelm Steinitz
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Chess is life - Bobby Fischer
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Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine - Mikhail Tal
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A bad plan is better than none at all - Frank Marshall
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There are two types of sacrifices; correct ones and mine - Mikhail Tal
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A good player is always lucky - Jose Raul Capablanca
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Chess is not like life... it has rules! - Mark Pasternak
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves - Bobby Fischer
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Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard - Reuben Fine
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He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess - Siegbert Tarrasch
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Chess is the art of analysis - Mikhail Botvinnik
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A player surprised is half beaten - Proverb
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Good positions don't win games, good moves do - Gerald Abrahams
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Chess is as much a mystery as women - Purdy
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Without error there can be no brilliancy - Emanuel Lasker
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Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess - Siegbert Tarrasch
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Opening teach you openings. Endgame teach you chess! - Stephan Gerzadowicz
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Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black Pieces - Akiba Rubinstein
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Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King - Koblentz
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Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders - Savielly Tartakower
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When you see a good move, look for a better one - Emanuel Lasker
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Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty - Doninic Lawson
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The Pin is mightier than the sword - Fred Reinfeld
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Every Pawn is a potential Queen - James Mason
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