Max Euwe Quotes

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Chess demands total concentration

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

I try not to think about the person, just their tactics, their weaknesses and strengths. I play against the ball.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own.

In chess there can never be a favorite move. I can probably pinpoint in a specific game, there might be a move that was like, "Oh, that was a good move." And maybe certain moves turned the whole game around, but there's not one special move that does that, unless it's checkmate because that's when the game is over.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

I usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.