Keres Quotes & Sayings

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal. — Irving Chernev

I was unlucky, like my country. — Paul Keres

A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance. — Paul Keres

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings. — Paul Keres

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance. — Paul Keres

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out. — Paul Keres

The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance. — Janet Morris

Chess is a test of wills. — Paul Keres