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Favorite Chess Quotes

I'd like to hear Li Chess members favorite chess quotes...I'll start with one...Master Philidor said "Pawns are the soul of the game" You can believe that if you have won or lost a game due to the single loss of a pawn....
"Checkmate!"
Somehow it's more fun to quote that line than to listen to someone else quote it.
Maybe...Some one can help me with who said this..."The mistakes are all there...Just waiting to be made"
Capablanca wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

Bobby Fischer
"Spielt Blackmar-Diemer-Gambit, und das Matt kommt von selbst!"

~Emil Joseph Diemer
"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made."

Savielly Tartakower
A couple of quotes I always find myself telling people I've helped out:

1. The winner is the person who makes the second to last mistake. - Savielly Tartakower

2. I only see one move ahead, the right one! - Richard Reti
bullet is the art of making blunders/losing faster than your opponent-zugaddict(John Chernoff)
"I don't believe in psychology, I believe in good moves."
-- Bobby Fischer

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