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9. “Every chess master was once a beginner.” – Irving Chernev

10. “Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!” - Aaron Nimzowitsch

11. “We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chess player's nature.” - Rudolf Spielman

12. “Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty.” -Dominic Lawson

13. “A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror” - Wilhelm Steinitz

14. “Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack” - Wilhelm Steinitz

15. “Chess is rarely a game of ideal moves. Almost always, a player faces a series of difficult consequences whichever move he makes.” – David Shenk

16. “When you see a good move, look for a better one.” – Emanuel Lasker

17. “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 Timman

18. “Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.” – Mikhail Chigorin

19. “Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” – Savielly Tartakower

20. “In life, as in chess, forethought wins.” – Charles Buxton

21. “You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.” – José Raúl Capablanca

22. “I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.” – Bobby Fischer

23. “Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann

24. “I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. Now I attack because I know it works best.” – Garry Kasparov

41. "Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer." -Albert Einstein

42. “Chess is a curse upon a man." - H. G. Wells

43. “Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.”- Wilhelm Steinitz

44. "Chess is as much a mystery as women." – Purdy

45. “He who fears an isolated Queen’s Pawn should give up Chess” -Siegbert Tarrasch

46. “It doesn’t matter how strong a player you are, if you fail to register some development in the opening, then you are asking for trouble.”- John Emms

47. “When having an edge, [Anatoly] Karpov often marked time and still gained the advantage! I don't know anyone else who could do that, it's incredible.”- Vladimir Kramnik

48. "Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life." -Edward Morgan Forster

57. "I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess''. - Magnus Carlsen

58. "I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear." - Vladimir Kramnik

59. " When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his." - Alexander Alekhine

60. "Help your pieces so they can help you." - Paul Morphy

61." The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak." - Boris Spassky

62." Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win." - Jose Raul Capablanca

63. “After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived.” – Edmar Mednis

64. "Chess is the art of analysis." - Mikhail Botvinnik

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