Raymond Keene quotes

Raymond Keene quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.”
-- Raymond Keene

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“... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".”
-- Raymond Keene

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“(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.”
-- Raymond Keene

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“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.”
“The problem with a politicianâ€™s quote on Facebook is you donâ€™t know whether or not they really said it.”
“A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
“No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.”
“The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.”

Source : "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.
“I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.”
“Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.”
“We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.”
“We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.”

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