Hi there.
Welcome to this beginner's course.
Before we go on to this amazing journey, I want to share some some amazing quotations about chess with
you.
So the first one is by Irving Chernev, one of my favorite authors.
In fact, he has very, very good books on chess I can recommend.
And he said every chess master was once a beginner.
I was absolutely enchanted by his most instructive games of chess book and other other people, also
raving about his logical chess move by move.
He's well worth checking out as a book author Siegbert Tarrasch had a lot to say about chess, and one
of the things he said chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy or women happy,
as we should say nowadays.
So yes, Siegbert Tarrasch had that to say.
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
This is something to bear in mind.
If nothing else.
Chess is great mental exercise.
I play chess every day.
I absolutely love it.
It does, I feel keep, you know, my my mind working rather than, you know, becoming a cabbage.
So there's that.
This is something you need to bear in mind about chess.
You may learn much more from a game that you lose than from a game you win.
So you'll have to lose hundreds of games before becoming good player.
So that's a kind of note by Capablanca.
Treat it as a learning process, that mindset to be a learning mindset.
During games when you see a good move, don't be overexcited.
Sometimes, sometimes look for a better move.
Emanuel Lasker said that, you know, these are great world champions, many of these players.
So Lasker was one of the longest world champions.
In fact, Capablanca, another world champion, said a good player is also lucky.
Always lucky, he said, always lucky, which shows, you know, sometimes, yeah, the good players
really know, you know, the tactics and the positional play and everything.
So they can even work their way back from bad positions to win.
The better and better you get, the more lucky you become.
Basically.
You cannot play chess if you are kind hearted.
A French proverb.
Yeah, I'm not sure about that one myself, but this.
This is a French proverb.
Sometimes you do have this, have to have this will and determination to win and not accept a draw.
There's a fear of not losing.
You've got to overcome that and sometimes not accept a draw.
Play on and play on.
Okay.
Tartakower is one of my favorite chess personalities in chess.
He has so many amazing chess quotations to check out.
Well worth checking out his quotations.
And he talks about blunders a lot in some of his quotations.
Blood.
The blunders are all there on the board waiting to be made.
He also said the winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake.
That's another one.
He says the game has three stages.
So normally we'd think about the game, the three stages as opening, middlegame and endgame.
He's changed that into this stage one.
You hope you have an advantage.
Two believe.
You believe you have an advantage.
And then three stage three you're knowing, knowing that you're going to lose.
So.
So yeah, tactical is well worth checking out.
So these are inspirational quotes that have, you know, great insight to them.
You'll see other quotes later on in the course.
I love my quotes.
And I thought, oh, this would be a fun start for this course, for your journey and for me.
Yeah, the journey of chess is ongoing.
It's a lifetime journey and it can really enhance your joy of life.
I would say basically, as well as keeping your your mind fit and healthy.
Okay.
Thanks very much.