Rashid Nezhmetdinov - Quotes

Quotes

  • "Nobody sees combinations like Rashid Nezhmetdinov." Mikhail Botvinnik
  • Nezhmetdinov is "the greatest master of the initiative." Lev Polugaevsky
  • "His games reveal the beauty of chess and make you love in chess not so much the points and high placings, but the wonderful harmony and elegance of this particular world." Mikhail Tal
  • "Rashid Nezhmetdinov is a virtuoso of combinational chess." David Bronstein

Bronstein also wrote that Nezhmetdinov was "a fantastic mathematician."

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