Reshevsky Quotes

#1. What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

Samuel Reshevsky

#2. I'd better say at the start that I don't actually believe in magic any more than I believe in astrology, because I'm a Taurean and we don't go in for all that weirdo occult stuff.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.

Samuel Reshevsky

#4. The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Samuel Reshevsky

#5. When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

Travis Tritt

#6. 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

#7. My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

Samuel Reshevsky

#8. Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.

Hortense Powdermaker

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

Samuel Reshevsky

#10. 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

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

Samuel Reshevsky

#12. All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#13. She made a mistake. It happens. We are none of us perfect.

Paula Hawkins

#14. 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

#15. Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

Samuel Reshevsky

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

Samuel Reshevsky

#18. On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.

Thomas Malthus