Fred Reinfeld famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together! This was due partly to his engaging personality and distinguished appearance: he was one of those exceptional people who at once stand out in a crowd.
-- Fred Reinfeld

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Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination.
-- Fred Reinfeld

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But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
-- Fred Reinfeld

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Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.
-- Fred Reinfeld

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Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.
You always catch the wrong players.
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur vÃ©ritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'Ã©lever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("supplÃ©er", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par lÃ ", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

Fred Reinfeld famous quotes

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