Alexander Khalifman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!
-- Alexander Khalifman

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One should respect a defeated opponent!
-- Alexander Khalifman

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Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.
-- Alexander Khalifman

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Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
I Can't win the World Cup alone
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
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!

Alexander Khalifman famous quotes

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