Samuel Reshevsky Quotes

• Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Player, Inexperience, Chess

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• The only good Rook is a working Rook!

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Ajedrez

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• Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Memories, Mind, Chess

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• It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Winning, Player, Chess

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• No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Play, Style, Progress

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• Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Player, Tactics, Chess

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• Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Taken, Sleep, Knights

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• My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Style, Chess, Humour

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• El caballo es famoso, entre otras cosas, por su idoneidad como bloqueador ... Como su fuerza reside en las operaciones a corta distancia, no le resulta incómodo permanecer en un mismo lugar durante mucho tiempo, como le ocurre al alfil.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Lying, Knights, Long

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• We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Art, Opposites, Tactics

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• By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then, despite being in time pressure, I have no difficulty in finding the best continuation. Incidentally, it is an odd fact that more often than not it is my opponent who gets the jitters when I am compelled to make these hurried moves.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Time, Moving, Games

  Samuel Reshevsky (1948). “Reshevsky's best games of chess: (Formerly titled: Reshevsky on chess)”, Dover Publications

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• ¿Qué es un peón débil? Un peón expuesto al ataque y también difícil de defender es un peón débil. Existen varias variedades: aislado, doblado, demasiado adelantado, retrasado.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Pawns, Retarded, Weak

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