LONDON CHESS CLUB

The London Chess Club was founded in 1807 and continued until 1860. The London City Club was founded in 1852 and continued until it merged with the National Chess Centre in 1939.

Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized! Mahir Mamedov
2014
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.” Alexander Alekhine
Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence. Robert Fischer
1960
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.” Albert Einstein
Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did” Magnus Carlsen
2017

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