Samuel Reshevsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only good Rook is a working Rook!
-- Samuel Reshevsky

#Chess
Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.
-- Samuel Reshevsky

#Player #Chess #Requirements
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

#Player #Winning #Endgame
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
-- Samuel Reshevsky

#Memories #Mind #Chess
No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
-- Samuel Reshevsky

#Play #Style #Progress
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
-- Samuel Reshevsky

#Player #Instinct
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

#Moving #Games #Phases
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

#Lying #Knights #Long
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
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

#Pawns #Retarded #Weak
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
My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian
-- Samuel Reshevsky

#Style #Chess

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