Jeremy Silman quotes

Jeremy Silman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw”
-- Jeremy Silman

#Suffering Quotes #Opponents Quotes #Chess Quotes
“Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified”
-- Jeremy Silman

#Mad Quotes #May Quotes #Chess Quotes
“After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense, many players will have a vague idea of what you are talking about but nothing more. Even a fragmented understanding of these concepts will prove useful though, and eventually they will improve as these lessons are assimilated by repetition and example.”
-- Jeremy Silman

#Player Quotes #Talking Quotes #Ideas Quotes
“The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.”
-- Jeremy Silman

#Kings Quotes #Team Quotes #Games Quotes
“Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some money at chess, I could see him becoming a street person, shaking his fists at cars as they passed by his corner of the block. Isn't it preferable to have him in a self-sufficient position rather than as a liability of the state?”
-- Jeremy Silman

#Block Quotes #Self Quotes #Car Quotes

“Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”
“A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.”
“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.”
“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
“Chess is not only knowledge and logic”
“Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.”
“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
“Combination is a soul of chess.”
“You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.”
“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk”

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