Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“I want to be an aggressive player;One who always find joy in every move.” — Kenneth de Guzman Copy Share Image
In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors. — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion… — Garry Kasparov 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
Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we… — Gza Copy Share Image
“One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its… — Hans Berliner Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
It's a very special generation, because during our careers the computer entered chess. So we know how to play without computers, which… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
“It would be a pretty good bet that the gods of a world like this probably do not play chess and indeed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If it hadn't been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would've been unbelievably dull,… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
A 10,000m race is like a chess game and you are watching, wondering what's going on and what's going to happen. — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
“In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
“The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record. — Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami Copy Share Image
In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed. — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon. — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot. — James M. Loy Copy Share Image
