WOOD PUSHER

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

Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Kasparov had to hate the opponent to play successfully. I belong to a different type of chess players. I’m like Keres, Spassky and Portisch. On the board we fight, but in life we get along great. Anatoly Karpov
2015
Fischer was the first to send me a telegram when I was in Amsterdam after I had defected, saying ‘Congratulations on the correct move’. Vikor Kortchnoi
1986 NIC
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.” David Bronstein
I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014
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

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