Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.
Don’t worry kids, you’ll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
Capablanca’s play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately.
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
I only think well when my mind is calm.
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess.
Capablanca’s phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the ’30’s and ’40’s, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today’s chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.
A knight ending is really a pawn ending.
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work.
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists.
If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him.
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess, of chess culture.
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.