A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked'… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time,… — Jordana Spiro Copy Share Image
Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people… — Madeleine Albright 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
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the… — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor Copy Share Image
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't… — Michael Stean Copy Share Image
You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together… — Fabiano Caruana Copy Share Image
My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture… — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got. — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
