„Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player.“

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— Siegbert Tarrasch, libro The Game of Chess

The Game of Chess (1931), Pt. 2 : The End Game, p. 79

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ajedrecista alemán 1862 - 1934

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„I'm a chess player; I play chess.“

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— Floyd Mayweather Jr. American boxer 1977

2010s, 2015, Interview with Jim Gray (September 2015)

„The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.“

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— Marcel Duchamp French painter and sculptor 1887 - 1968

quote from Marcel Duchamp, by Kynaston McShine, 1989; as quoted on Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp
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„Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.“

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— Anne Brontë, libro La inquilina de Wildfell Hall

Fuente: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXIII : Two Evenings; Helen to Walter

„You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players.“

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— Algis Budrys, libro Michaelmas

Fuente: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 7 (p. 98)

„The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.“

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— Edgar Allan Poe, libro The Murders in the Rue Morgue

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).

„We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula "chess for the sake of chess", like the formula "art for art's sake". We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.“

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— Nikolai Krylenko Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser 1885 - 1938

Krylenko on promoting chess in the Soviet Union. Quoted in Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment

„Ralph… would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.“

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— William Golding, libro El señor de las moscas

Fuente: Lord of the Flies

„Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.“

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— Paul Morphy American chess player 1837 - 1884

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„“Do you play chess, by the by?” asked Vance.
“Used to. But no more. A beautiful game, though—if it wasn't for the players.”“

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— S. S. Van Dine, libro The Bishop Murder Case

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The Bishop Murder Case (1929)

„In chess, we say that the player with the initiative is obliged to attack, otherwise the initiative will be lost and the counterattack will likely be decisive.“

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— Garry Kasparov former chess world champion 1963

2010s, The Truth About Putin (2018)

„There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.“

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— Edgar Allan Poe American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809 - 1849

Poe stating his arguments that Maelzel's Chess-Player was a hoax. Maelzel's Chess-Player http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm, Southern Literary Journal (April 1836).

„It [chess] is not only the most delightful and scientific, but the most moral of amusements.“

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— Paul Morphy American chess player 1837 - 1884

As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859

„Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.“

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— G. H. Hardy, libro A Mathematician's Apology

A Mathematician's Apology (1941)

„The improved performances at Commonwealth Games, London Olympics and world tournaments by chess, billiards, snooker badminton and tennis players are evidence of the improved progress that we have made.“

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— Anil Kumble Former Indian cricketer 1970

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„Put two players against each other who both have perfect technique, who both avoid weaknesses, and what is left?—a sorry caricature of chess.“

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— Emanuel Lasker German World Chess Champion and grandmaster, contract bridge player, mathematician, and philosopher 1868 - 1941

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Fuente: [Andrew Soltis, Soltis, Andy, The Great Chess Tournaments and Their Stories, 133, New York 1927 • The End of Chess?, 1975, Chilton Book Company, 0-8019-6138-6]