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.
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The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.
Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.
Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
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