Sah gratis - Citate de la jucatori celebri despre acest jocul de sah
Despre sah se poate vorbi la infinit, numarul de citate interesante pe care le-am gasit este impresionant. Asa ca ne-am oprit pentru moment doar asupra a ceea ce au spus de-a lungul timpului campionii mondiali din istoria sahului.
Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-1894)
- A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
- A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.
- Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
- Chess is not for timid souls.
- Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
- Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
- I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
- I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.
- Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
- When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921)
- When you see a good move wait - look for a better one. - Emanuel Lasker
Jose Raul Capablanca (1921-1927)
- One can profit more from a single loss than a hundred wins.
Alexander Alekhine (1927-1935, 1937-1946)
- Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
- Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
- Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
- I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
- I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
- I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.
- In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
- Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
- The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
- The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Max Euwe (1935-1937)
- Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
- Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
- Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.
- Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
Mikhail Botvinnik (1948-1957, 1958-1960, 1961-1963)
- Chess is the art of analysis
- Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
Vasily Smyslov (1957-1958)
In my opinion, computers should assist the chess player and should not be made basically to go against the interest of chess. If the computers are made to play in tournaments, it is dangerous to the development of the game.
Mikhail Tal (1960-1961)
- To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess.
- I drink, I smoke, I gamble, I chase girls—but postal chess is one vice I don’t have.
Tigran Petrosian (1963-1969)
- ...In some places words have been replaced by symbols which, like amulets from a witch's bag, have the power to consume the living spirit of chess. The notorious "!!" can never approximate the human emotions which accompany an "excellent move" or a "great idea".
- ...Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player's ideas critically!
Boris Spassky (1969-1972)
- Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
- For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
- I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
- I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.
- I don't want ever to be champion again.
- I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.
- I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
- In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (1972-1975)
- You can only get good at chess if you love the game.
Anatoly Karpov (1975-1985)
- Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
- I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
Garry Kasparov (1985-2000)
- Chess is mental torture.
- I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
- I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
- I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Vladimir Kramnik (2000-2007)
- An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
- At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.
- Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
- Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
- Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
- For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
Viswanathan Anand (campion mondial din 2007)
- Each game will be very closely fought. All of us are at the cutting edge of theory and I am sure you will face top class preparation in each game. I just expect a very tough event.
Si un mic bonus: "Chess grips its exponent, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected." - Albert Einstein
Regele – este piesa cea mai importanta, dar totodata si cea mai vulnerabila (exceptand pionii). Poate fi mutat cate o patratica in orice directie – inainte, inapoi, in laterale sau pe diagonala.
Regina – a 2-a piesa ca valoare si importanta. Poate fi mutata oricate patratele in orce directie – inainte, inapoi, pe laterale sau in diagonala. 
2 ture (numite si turnuri) – dupa cum probabil ati ghicit, a 3-a piesa ca importanta. Poate fi mutata inainte, inapoi sau lateral (stanga/dreapta) oricate patratele. Este o piesa importanta mai ales spre finalul jocului, cand tabla devine mai libera si poate folosi spatiu de manevra.
2 cai – desi nu este decat a 4-a piesa ca valoare, calul poate avea un rol foarte important. Este singura piesa ce se muta in forma literei 'L' (mare), adica 2 casute drept (in orice directie) apoi lateral (dreapta sau stanga). In cazul ideal calul poate ataca 8 pozitii.
2 nebuni – fiecare jucator dispune de 2 nebuni, plasati in patratele de culori diferite. Avem astfel un nebun de alb si unul de negru. Nebunii pot fi mutati in diagonala (oricate patratele). Unul dintre motivele petru care este considerat mai slab decat calul este ca un nebun nu are acces decat la jumatate dintre patratelele tablei de sah.
8 pioni – ca valoare individuala, pionul este cea mai putin importanta piesa a jocului de sah, dar asta nu inseamna ca trebuie neglijat. Poate fi mutat 1 sau 2 patratele (in functie de pozitia pe tabla) si ataca in diagonala (cate o patratica). Pionul nu poate fi mutat si nici captura inapoi. Alta caracteristica este ca odata ajuns la capatul tablei poate fi transformat (promovat) in regina.
