Money, power respect, I took your bitch with finesse. Chickens jumping like checkers, but this game is chess. — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite. — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also. — Alexandra Kosteniuk Copy Share Image
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few — Georg Kieninger Copy Share Image
Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
From the moment of my birth on 23 July 1976, I became involved f in an educational research project. Even before I… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
My father would never let me win at chess, so when I did beat him he was really, really proud. I was… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it… — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
