Paul Keres famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody
-- Paul Keres

#Chess #Complicated #Fischer
A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
-- Paul Keres

#Moving #Player #Second Chance
Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.
-- Paul Keres

#Hard Work #World #Chess
Chess is a test of wills.
-- Paul Keres

#Chess #Tests
In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.
-- Paul Keres

#Second Chance #Errors #Chance
An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.
-- Paul Keres

#Innovation #Needs #Chess
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
-- Paul Keres

#Stubborn #Chess #Resistance
I was unlucky, like my country.
-- Paul Keres

#Country #Unlucky

Chess is not only knowledge and logic
Combination is a soul of chess.
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.
I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

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