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Quick Quotes
Chess is like war on a board. - Bobby Fischer
Chess is 99 percent tactics. - Teichmann
Chess is really 99 percent calculation - Soltis
Every chess master was once a beginner. - Chernev
Life is too short for chess. - Byron
A good player is always lucky. - Capablanca
A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose! - Tartakower
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. - Tartakover
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Tartakover
The pin is mightier than the sword. - Reinfeld
The Passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient. - Nimzovich
Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all. - Mikhail Chigorin
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half - Jan Tinman
And finally a couple of quotes from myself:
It takes about 50 good moves to win a game of chess but unfortunately only one dumb one to lose. – Paul Talbot
Chess is a very unforgiving game - Paul Talbot
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