Eduard Gufeld quotes

Eduard Gufeld quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.”
-- Eduard Gufeld

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“You always catch the wrong players.”
“I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.”

Source : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.
“Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.”
“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”
“The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.”

Source : "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
“Psychology is the most important factor in chess.”
“Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!”
“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”

Source : "The Soviet School of Chess". Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.
“Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.”
“Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!”

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