Viktor Korchnoi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Play #Boards #Opponents
The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Color #Games #Two
I don't study; I create.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Study
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
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.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Mistake #Memorable #Games
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Thinking #Winning #Chess
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Elements #Chess #Flaws
All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Moving #Games #Looks
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.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Risk #Psychology #Use
The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Reflection #Simple #Glasses
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.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Skeletons #Coconuts #Slim
The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Years #Chess #Lasts
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.
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Player #Thinking #Games
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Normal #Chess #Madness
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 ...
-- Viktor Korchnoi

#Player #People #World

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