WOOD PUSHER

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

” (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
FIDE is now a political organization. And being a political organization, it, of course, means that people in FIDE have some other interests – that is, to sit in their positions for the next hundred years. Silvio Danailov
2016
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw Dr. Vidmar
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
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas? Nigel Short
2017

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