If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games,… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game,… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past,… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several… — Brad Lidge Copy Share Image
I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique)… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being… — Mihail Marin Copy Share Image
“You have a friend named Bug?” “Sure. Why wouldn’t I?” Chess asked. “I have another friend who keeps telling me to call… — J.M. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation. — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to… — Michael Stean Copy Share Image
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
“Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates—a very good game, by the way—I can watch people as they choose their strategy… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ...… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
“Life isn't always like Chess. But sometimes it is. In a really difficult game, queen leaves board at the end. The difference… — Heshan Udunuwara Copy Share Image
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments. — Bryan Q. Miller Copy Share Image
It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
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