Irving Chernev quotes
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“Every Chess master was once a beginner”
-- Irving ChernevSource : Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld (2013). “Winning Chess: Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic”, p.148, Pavilion Books
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“The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly”
-- Irving ChernevSource : Irving Chernev (1973). “The chess companion: a merry collection of tales of chess and its players, together with a cornucopia of games, problems, epigrams & advice, topped off with the greatest game of chess ever played”, Simon & Schuster
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“Chess is not for the timid.”
-- Irving ChernevSource : Irving Chernev (1955). “1000 best short games of chess: a treasury of masterpieces in miniature”
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“On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.”
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“The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.”
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“If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.”
-- Irving ChernevSource : Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books
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“Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.”
-- Irving ChernevSource : Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”
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“The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.”
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“I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.”
Source : HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”
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“Every Chess master was once a beginner”
Source : Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld (2013). “Winning Chess: Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic”, p.148, Pavilion Books
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“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk”
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“It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.”
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