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It feels different when you touch the pieces and move them around. Every chess lover understands what I mean - Alireza Firoujza in New In Chess.
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After we have paid our dutiful respects to such frigid values as calculation, foresight, self-control and the like, we always come back to the thought that speculative attack is the lifeblood of chess - Fred ReinfeldComment
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Fred - one of the popularizers of chess....... simple, but effective, first instructions. Read numbers of his books, when I first learned at 19 y.o. that there were chess books (!!??) and that there are more books written about chess than any other sport (Is that still right?).
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A movie called 'A Bullet for Joey'. George Raft is talking to an ex-girlfriend about another guy and says, with a sneer in his voice, " You wouldn't go for him. He's a chess player."
Ohh the injustice!"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De QuinceyComment
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That is it! Finally, an explanation for why so few of the fair sex enter chess tournaments?Originally posted by Peter McKillop View PostComment
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Great Chess Quotes
March 21, 2021
Would you buy water-damaged chess books to pay a low price?
This from eBay today:
12 Water damaged or stained chess books
Starting bid US $20
Description: 12 Water damaged chess books. Condition is "Acceptable". Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
These books all have water damage, warping, and/or stains. Otherwise, they are in very good condition and readable.
How to Reassess your chess by Silman has stains on the page edges. Otherwise very good.
Chess Computer book has water stains in the top right, otherwise very good.
How Good is your chess has a little piece of the paper spine missing, otherwise very good.
ICON Sicilian Alapin has stains on the cover. Otherwise very good.
Inside Chess Openings has stains on the cover that go to the first 3 pages, otherwise very good.
Winning with the Slav has water damage and stains on the right side, otherwise very good.
Anti-Meran Botvinnik variation has warping and water damage, otherwise very good.
Planning has warping and water stains, otherwise very good condition
Danger in Chess has warping and water stains, otherwise very good condition.
Leningrad Dutch has warping and water stains, otherwise very good condition
Game of Chess has stains on the outside page edges, otherwise very good condition.
Test Your Chess IQ has stains and warping, otherwise very good condition.
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From the editor of American Chess Magazine regarding the popularity of the Queens Gambit: "we had incredible feedback from our last issue (#19) that even surpassed readers interest in our bestseller #12 with its "Fischer Magic". Finally outdone! Truly amazing!Comment
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Jeremy Silman reported in the May 1978 issue of "Chess Life & Review" that Tigran Petrosian had recently given a simul against 30 juniors in London. He scored +10 =11 -9. Petrosian commented: "In the USSR, such players do not play in simultaneous exhibitions - they play in international tournaments!".
In the same report, SIlman mentions: "One of England's brightest hopes is 13-year old Nigel Short."Comment
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April 29, 2021
A statement in ChessBomb today by ArcticStones during the Aronian-Carlsen match game of the New in Chess Classic Knockouts (Game 4):
Ivanchuk is in a class by himself – the world’s foremost expert on the ceilings of chess venues!
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The following Botvinnik quote comes from an interview B. gave to a Russian emigrant magazine called 'Seven Days'. Don't know if that mag still exists but the interview was re-printed in the trial run of New in Chess Magazine published as issue no. zero in March, 1984, and that's where I obtained this quote.
Originally posted by Mikhail Botvinnik"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De QuinceyComment
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Pete, dont you find it interesting that Botvinnik said that during Soviet times. Thats quite the statement. I guess he was beyond repercussions.Comment
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Yes, this was my first reaction too. But I guess it is as you say, he was basically immortal as far as chess went. Still, the bravado and gall are wonderful, and he must have ruffled quite a few feathers in the process.Originally posted by Hans Jung View PostComment
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Yes, I agree re "beyond repercussions.". It would be interesting to know if Botvinnik was always that sharp-tongued in his assessments of some players. In the same interview he had uncomplimentary things to say about Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Polugaevsky, and Portisch. In the cases of Smyslov, Korchnoi, Kasparov, Bondarevsky, Boleslavsky, Furman, Fine, and Beliavsky his comments were generally positive. At that time (1984) he considered Kasparov and Korchnoi to be the world's strongest players.Originally posted by Hans Jung View Post"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De QuinceyComment
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Great Chess Quotes
May 13, 2021
Yoko Ono’s White Chess Set
Since it was originally exhibited in Ono’s solo presentation at London’s Indica Gallery in November 1966, White Chess Set has been displayed in various configurations at venues across the world (including multiple boards set up on a long table, and a large-scale outdoor version, among others). In its elemental form, the work consists of an all-white board with all-white pieces on both sides, rendering both player’s pieces visibly indistinguishable from the other’s. As a result, players must take care to remember where they place their pieces as the game unfolds across the board, but it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate sides as the pieces come into closer proximity; ultimately, players lose track of which pieces are theirs and which belong to their opponent.
At this point, outside of Ono’s instruction to discontinue play, players can choose whether to continue attempting to follow the standard rules of chess or create a new way to play together. This process of decision making creates opportunities for conversation, collaboration, and creativity in developing a novel strategy. This aspect of the work suggests Ono’s anti-war stance—an ideology that permeates much of her oeuvre. The artist’s subtle modifications to the game of chess—traditionally considered a war game—fundamentally alter the goals of playing; instead of working against one another as if in battle, players must work together to effect conditions of peace.
https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_...ite-chess-set/
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I would pay good money to see Carlsen and Svidler (say) play a game on the all-white set!
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Keep promoting it and it may happen Wayne!
I saw the Yoko Ono peace set (not piece set) in St Louis at the World Chess Museum. I enjoyed it and it fit in well with all the other exhibiting sets. I would recommend the visit to any chess lover.Comment
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