10 Quotes by Samuel Reshevsky

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

We often hear the terms ‘positional’ and ‘tactical’ used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting’s composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as ‘artistic’ art, so there is no such thing as ‘positional’ chess.

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian.

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.