Hans Kmoch quotes

Hans Kmoch quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.”
-- Hans Kmoch

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“The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.”
-- Hans Kmoch

Source : Hans Kmoch (2013). “Pawn Power in Chess”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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“Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?”
-- Hans Kmoch

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“And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated.”
-- Hans Kmoch

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“Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.”
-- Hans Kmoch

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