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.
Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
I don't do fashion, I'm fashion
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.
I nearly always write β just as I nearly always breathe.
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
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