David Bronstein Quotes

• El arma más poderosa en el ajedrez es tener la siguiente jugada

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  Powerful, Moving, Next Move

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• In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

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  Success, Opportunity, Chess

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• To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

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  Attitude, Mean, Games

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• A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

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  Games, Battle, Nerves

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• Si ha cometido un error o una imprecisión, no tiene por qué enfadarse y pensar que todo está perdido. Hay que reorientarse rápidamente y encontrar un nuevo plan en la nueva situación.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Annoyed

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• A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.

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  Time, Strong, Heart

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• Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

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  Mind, Battle, Chess

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• The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

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  Thinking, Essence, Chess

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• When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

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  Boards, Opponents, Chess

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• Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

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  Dream, Moving, Reality

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is imagination.

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  Imagination, Chess

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• It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.

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  Kings, Heart, Artist

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

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  Kings, Games, Chess

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• Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

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  Success, Moving, Chess

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• When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

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  Moving, Play, Opponents

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• Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

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  Success, Player, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• A veces en las conferencias me preguntan: ¿cómo jugarían hoy los campeones del siglo pasado? Creo que, después de hacer un estudio apresurado de las aperturas modernas, y de ver uno o dos torneos, los campeones del siglo pasado, y de hecho del siglo anterior, ocuparían muy rápidamente el mismo lugar que ocupaban cuando estaban vivos.

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  Pensar, Jugar, Dos

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• What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much likes to play the King's Gambit.

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  Kings, Past, Play

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• Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

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  Fashion, Character, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Pero, digan lo que digan, y diga lo que diga yo, una máquina que puede jugar al ajedrez con personas es una de las maravillas más maravillosas de nuestro siglo XX.

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  Play, People, Machines

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.

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  Pawns, Should

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• Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

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  Two, Enemy, Pieces

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• There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.

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  Eye, Play, Pieces

  David Bronstein, Jim Marfia (1979). “Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

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  Kings, Dark, Squares

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• Resulta molesto que las reglas del ajedrez no permitan a un peón avanzar ni horizontalmente ni hacia atrás, sino sólo hacia delante... Esta sintonía psicológica es ideal para atacar, pero ¿y para defender?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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