Viktor Korchnoi Quotes

• The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Time, Years, Chess

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• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

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  Play, Boards, Opponents

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• Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

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  Ajedrez

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• Ningún Gran Maestro de Ajedrez es normal; sólo se diferencian en el grado de su locura

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  Chess, Normal, Madness

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• The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

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  Color, Games, Two

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• Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

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  Success, Player, Thinking

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• El elemento humano, el defecto humano y la nobleza humana: ésas son las razones por las que se ganan o se pierden las partidas de ajedrez.

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  Elements, Chess, Flaws

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• All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

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  Moving, Games, Dubious

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• I don't study; I create.

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  Estudiar

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• Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

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  Skeletons, Coconuts, Chess

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• As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

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  Mistake, Memorable, Games

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• Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

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  Psychology, Risk, Use

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• Cada vez que gano un torneo tengo que pensar que algo falla en el ajedrez moderno.

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  Winning, Thinking, Chess

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• El objetivo era simple: privar a Karpov de su ocupación favorita: estar de pie ante el tablero, mirando fijamente a su oponente. Mientras llevaba estas gafas, lo único que podía admirar era su propio reflejo.

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  Reflection, Simple, Glasses

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• Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.

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  Player, People, Three

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• It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Morning, Mistake, Player

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• [Garry] Kasparov y [Anatoly] Karpov tienen algo en común. Ambos quieren ser diputados de la Duma Estatal rusa.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Want, Common, Deputies

  Fuente: es.chessbase.com

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