Robert Hubner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

  • Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

  • During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

  • Chess will always be the master of us all.

  • Chess is not only knowledge and logic

  • 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.

  • Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!

  • 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.

  • During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

  • 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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