Dan Heisman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.
-- Dan Heisman

#Learning #Worry #Chess
When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.
-- Dan Heisman

#Keys #Boards #Pieces
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.
-- Dan Heisman

#Thinking #Games #Ignorant
Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
-- Dan Heisman

#Games #Chess #Losing

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
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.
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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.
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.
I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.
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.
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.
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.

Dan Heisman famous quotes

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