Re: Great chess quotes
Great Chess Quotes
June 26, 2017
From: Reflections after Reykjavik by Gerald Abrahams on pages 84-90 of Encounter, March 1973:
• ‘Fischer’s play was described as “relentless” and “ruthless”. This is a splendid example of what Ruskin called “The Pathetic Fallacy”, as when the would-be poet speaks of the “cruel Sea” or the “kindly Vales”. Chess moves are effective or ineffective. A chess move is not cruel when it is good; nor is a bad move intended as an act of kindness.’
• As to practice, I only know one great player who behaved as if chess was completely “objective”. That was Akiva Rubinstein – a talmudist turned chessplayer. He was been called the “Spinoza of Chess”. But if you told this to the average super grandmaster (who has no metaphysics in his mind or music in his soul) he would ask “What tournaments did Spinoza win?” ...’
Quoted in Chess Notes by Edward Winter CN 10497, June 26, 2017
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...the_1972_v_Fis
Great Chess Quotes
June 26, 2017
From: Reflections after Reykjavik by Gerald Abrahams on pages 84-90 of Encounter, March 1973:
• ‘Fischer’s play was described as “relentless” and “ruthless”. This is a splendid example of what Ruskin called “The Pathetic Fallacy”, as when the would-be poet speaks of the “cruel Sea” or the “kindly Vales”. Chess moves are effective or ineffective. A chess move is not cruel when it is good; nor is a bad move intended as an act of kindness.’
• As to practice, I only know one great player who behaved as if chess was completely “objective”. That was Akiva Rubinstein – a talmudist turned chessplayer. He was been called the “Spinoza of Chess”. But if you told this to the average super grandmaster (who has no metaphysics in his mind or music in his soul) he would ask “What tournaments did Spinoza win?” ...’
Quoted in Chess Notes by Edward Winter CN 10497, June 26, 2017
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/i...the_1972_v_Fis
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