Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow… — Frank Brady Copy Share Image
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely… — Lisa Lane Copy Share Image
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething… — Shankarananda Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while,… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history… — Yasser Seirawan Copy Share Image
All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
