The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me. — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“They seemed to shine together at the center of things. They made things theirs. A certain bench in the park, near the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says,… — Humpy Koneru Copy Share Image
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless… — Adolf Anderssen Copy Share Image
It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other… — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural. — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine. — Levon Aronian Copy Share Image
Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
