Andrew Soltis quotes

Andrew Soltis quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Chess is 99 percent calculation.”
-- Andrew Soltis

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“You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer”
-- Andrew Soltis

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

Source : "Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess". Book by Harry Golombek, 1977.

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“Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.”
-- Andrew Soltis

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“Chess is a game of bad moves.”
-- Andrew Soltis

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“As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts.”
-- Andrew Soltis

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“Psychology is the most important factor in chess.”
“I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.”
“During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”
“Chess will always be the master of us all.”
“Chess is not only knowledge and logic”
“I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.”

Source : Attributed to Alexander Alekhine in David Hooper and ‎Kenneth Whyld "The Oxford companion to chess" (p. 8), 1996.
“As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.”

Source : Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books
“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”

Source : "The Soviet School of Chess". Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.
“Chess is a matter of vanity.”
“Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!”

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