Dan Heisman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.
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When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.
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If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game.
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Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
-- Dan Heisman
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Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
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Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.
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[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.
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There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
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I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.
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As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.
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You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
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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.
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Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.
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