Irving Chernev Quotes

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  • Chess is not for the timid.

    Chess  
    Irving Chernev (1955). “1000 best short games of chess: a treasury of masterpieces in miniature”
  • If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

    Queens   Kings   Men  
    Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books
  • The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

    Success   Winning   Games  
    Irving Chernev (1973). “The chess companion: a merry collection of tales of chess and its players, together with a cornucopia of games, problems, epigrams & advice, topped off with the greatest game of chess ever played”, Simon & Schuster
  • The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

    "The Chess Companion". Book by Irving Chernev, 1970.
  • The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

    Moving   White   Chess  
  • On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.

    Justice   Triumph   Doe  
  • Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

    Moving   Winning   Play  
    Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”
  • Every Chess master was once a beginner

    Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld (2013). “Winning Chess: Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic”, p.148, Pavilion Books
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