Yasser Seirawan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.
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Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!
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Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
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Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
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How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.
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Throughout chess history, great debates have raged about the pros and cons of hanging pawns. The debates are nonsense; the answer is cut and dried. If the pawns can be attacked and forced to move forward, they are weak. If they can be defended and remain where they are, they are strong.
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The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.
-- Yasser Seirawan
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Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
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Think it over, think it under.
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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
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It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
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I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.
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