Jan Hein Donner quotes

Jan Hein Donner quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Chess is and will always be a game of chance.”
-- Jan Hein Donner

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“This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.”
-- Jan Hein Donner

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“Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
“Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”
“You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!”
“Psychology is the most important factor in chess.”
“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
“Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.”
“Chess is a matter of vanity.”
“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flowâ€¦”
“I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances”
“He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.”

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