WOOD PUSHER

A chess player who does not think and whose main accomplishment is pushing the wooden pieces around the board.

I believe motivation is one of the most important things one has to have after playing for many years. Chess is a very complete, well thought-out game, which is why people have been playing it since ancient times. Judith Polgar
He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him. Veselin Topalov
2016
When you see a good move, look for a better one Emanuel Lasker
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research. W. Steinitz
” (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

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