·象棋是什么
1)Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders - Savielly Tartakower
象棋是一部美好的“天方错谭”(或“一千零一错”) ——萨维利·塔塔科维
[译注:阿拉伯名著《天方夜谭》,或叫《一千零一夜》,英文名是tale of 1001 nights,这里塔塔科维俏皮地“偷换”了概念……]
2)Chess is life - Bobby Fischer
象棋就是生活。 ——鲍比·菲舍尔
斯帕斯基(Spassky)的说法略有改变:Chess is like life ,棋如人生。
3)Chess is everything - art, science, and sport. - Karpov
象棋包容一切—艺术、科学和竞技。 ——卡尔波夫
4)Chess is mental torture. - Kasparov
下棋是一种精神上的磨难 ——卡斯帕罗夫
5)Chess is ruthless: you’’ve got to be prepared to kill people. - Nigel Short
象棋无情:你不得不准备谋杀别人 ——尼戈尔·肖特
6)Chess is as much a mystery as women - Purdy
象棋如女性般神秘莫测 ——普迪
7)Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe - Indian proverb
国际象棋是一片大海,那里昆虫可啜饮,大象可沐浴。 ——印度谚语
[译注:精彩啊!]
·反思
1)Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. - Tarrasch
棋,如爱情、如音乐,具有令人愉悦之力量。
2)Every chess master was once a beginner. - Chernev
每位象棋大师当初都是个初学者 ——车涅夫
3)Life is too short for chess. - Byron
人生啊,您给予象棋的时光太短暂了。 ——拜伦
4)A good player is always lucky. - Capablanca
好的棋手总是好运。 ——卡帕布兰卡
5)One doesn’’t have to play well, it’’s enough to play better than your opponent
你不需要走得多好,走得比对手好就足够了。 ——塔尔
6)When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box - Irish saying
对局结束,兵和王都要回到同一个盒子里。 ——爱尔兰谚语
[译注:有另一种的说法,说这个是意大利谚语]
·一般提示
1)When you see a good move wait - look for a better one. - Emanuel Lasker
你看见一步好棋了,且慢,寻求更好的一步吧。 ——爱曼钮·拉斯克
2)Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine. - Spielmann
如书籍般走开局,如魔术师般走中局,如机器般去走残局。 ——斯皮尔曼
3)The pawns are the soul of chess. - Philidor
兵是国际象棋的灵魂。 ——菲利多尔
4)Help your pieces so they can help you. - Paul Morphy
向你的棋子伸出帮助之手吧,它们也会帮助你的。 ——保尔·摩菲
5)All chessplayers should have a hobby. - Savielly Tartakower
所有棋手都应该有某一样业余爱好。 ——塔塔科维
6)When you don’’t know what to do, wait for you opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad. - Siegbert Tarrasch
当你不知道怎么做,而在干等对手的构思;这肯定是不妙的。 ——塔拉什
·关于战术
1)The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. - Tartakover
棋盘上失误充斥,它们等着被制造。 ——塔塔科维
2)The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Tartakover
对局的胜利者,是犯最后错误之前那个错误的人。 ——塔塔科维
3)There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine. - Tal
弃子有两种类型:正确的和属于我的。 ——塔尔
4)The pin is mightier than the sword. - Reinfeld
别针比宝剑还要犀利。 ——雷恩菲尔德
[译注:pin,别针、钉子、栓子;用于象棋术语指栓连、牵制战术,故有此说。]
5)Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard. - Fine
闪(抽)将是棋盘上的俯冲轰炸机。 ——法因
6)In blitz, the knight is stronger than the bishop. - Vlastimil Hort
超快棋中,马强于象。 ——霍特
7)The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. - Reti
对局的方案根据局面性路线而行;而它的决定,通常则由战术组合而生效。 ——列蒂
8)In the perfect chess combination as in a first-rate short story, the whole plot and counter-plot should lead up to a striking finale, the interest not being allayed until the very last moment. - Yates and Winter
完美的象棋组合犹如一篇第一流的短篇故事,正反双方应该导致一场最后的战斗终曲,直到最后那刻之前,趣味始终高涨。 ——叶茨和温特
9)... I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent. - Mikhail Tal
……我开始了在决定性的对局中获胜。可能是因为我认识到一个非常简单的事实:不仅我会紧张,我的对手也会。 ——塔尔
10)The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do. - Gerald Abrahams
战术家在有所可行动时知道怎么做;而战略家在无所可行动时知道怎么做。 ——阿伯拉罕斯
[译注:奇怪,网上别的地方说这是塔塔科维的话]
·中局和残局
1)Before the endgame, the gods have placed the middlegame. - Tarrasch
上帝已把中局摆在残局之前。 ——塔拉什
[译注:另一版本,Between the opening and endgame the gods have placed the middlegame]
2)Every pawn is a potential Queen. - Mason
每一只兵都是潜在的后。 ——梅森
3)A Passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. - Capablanca
棋盘上棋子数目减少,通路兵威力上升。 ——卡帕布兰卡
4)The older I grow, the more I value Pawns - Paul Keres
我年纪越大,就越看重兵的价值。 ——凯列斯
·计划和分析
1)Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all. - Mikhail Chigorin
哪怕是一个拙劣的计划也比完全无计划好。 ——奇戈林
2)It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realisable plan. - Znosko-Borovsky
你需要找寻的不是一步棋,哪怕是最好的棋,而应该是一个合理的计划。 ——波罗夫斯基
3)Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration. - Purdy
下棋时系统的思考比灵感更重要。 ——普迪
4)Chess is the art of analysis. - Botvinnik
象棋是分析的艺术。 ——鲍特维尼克
5)Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half - Jan Tinman
比赛时,所计算过的变化里最终证明有一半是完全多余的。可惜,没有人能事先知道是哪一半。 ——蒂曼
6)Chess books should be used as we use glasses -- to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight. - Jose Capablanca
关于棋书的使用就象我们使用眼镜——是为了辅助看得清,但有些棋手居然让自己相信自己真的视力良好了。 ——卡帕布兰卡
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