This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to… — Jan Hein Donner Copy Share Image
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive… — Michael Basman Copy Share Image
How well you play the game of life comes down to the sum of your choices. Whatever you decide, don't be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
Remember that the machine is there to help you, because at the end of the day, you're not playing freestyle chess, advanced… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a… — Ashot Nadanian Copy Share Image
Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The… — Steve Giddins Copy Share Image
“Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game.… — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
I love chess. Having to concentrate, to play against someone else, strategy - having to think ahead. I think all of that… — Carlos Alcaraz Copy Share Image
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
“had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world.… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Hmmm! well in the game of chess there is indeed one level but you have to go through many in order to… — Sardar Hyder Abbas Copy Share Image
The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole,… — Sergei Shipov Copy Share Image
Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work… — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
GARRY U ARE MY KING OF CHESS...AS U ACHIEVED LOTSIN URS LIFE..I LIKE U AS HUMAN BEING AND URS ATTITUDE VERY MUCH… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not… — Fydor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite. — Yuri Razuvaev Copy Share Image
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending… — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won. — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
![“Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The most remarkable feature of the game, and a testament to the depth of Kariakin's preparation, is that when the draw was agreed at move 39, his clock showed 1.52…” quote by Steve Giddins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/045/steve-giddins-279863_battle_kariakin-shirov-saw-another-theoretical_2048149.png)
