CONTROL

The exercising of power over a piece, a position or a square. Some opening like the French Defence is an immediate struggle for the control of the center.

Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. Magnus Carlsen
2010
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’! Boris Spassky
With the modern computer age, there are some new ideas, but the principles are basically the same… I try not to over-focus on preparation. Magnus Carlsen
2012
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously. Mihail Tal
1969
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!” Tigran Petrosian

error: Content is protected !!

CONTROL

CONTROL

ECHESSPEDIA

Quotes of the Day