Quiz of the statements of famous chess players

(Prepared and moderated by grandmaster Vlastimil Hort - Monday, 13 June 2011 - 15:00 - Michna Palace)

There is plenty of the statements and they are everywhere. They often survive their authors and pass from generation to generation. They evoke trefoils on the meadow and sometimes even the finest roses from the royal garden.
They concern everything - an opponent, one´s own defeat or fault, chess strategy or tactics, they chant individual figures and pawns. There is a healthy self-criticism inside, somewhere a pinch of irony. Many chess fans like to use them to be funny, as an ace in the sleeve. Surely you also have included some of the chess proverbs to your repertoire. But do you know who is their author?
Do you know, for example, what did Lasker and Nimcovitz say to each other in the famous scene, when Lasker did not smoke, but Nimcovitz felt psychologically blackmailed? From this occasion arose a thesis, that in chess „the threat is stronger than it´s fulfilment". Or who from the famous grandmasters has never beaten a healthy opponent yet? Everything will turn around chess masters, who fortunately said often more than they wished...