Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists
Interpretation
Chess and the violin are equally respected art forms requiring skill and dedication.
In this quote, Mikhail Botvinnik expresses the idea that chess, much like playing the violin, is a profound art that deserves similar recognition and respect. Just as there are many talented violinists who achieve success and mastery, there are also skilled chess players who contribute to the beauty and complexity of the game, emphasizing that both pursuits require considerable talent and dedication.
In practice
In a speech about honing one's skills in both art and intellect.
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.
If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what_x000D_ Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.
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