The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one,… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized… — John Harsanyi Copy Share Image
It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
In chess, the elite sacrifice the pawns to save the King. In the gospel, God sacrifices the King to save the pawns. — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I’m not forcing you to do anything. You need to make your own damn decisions . And I'm not playing this game… — Marilyn Grey Copy Share Image
Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match,… — Hans Kmoch Copy Share Image
When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg… — Jeremy Silman Copy Share Image
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is… — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“Our parting was like a stalemate…. Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost. And worse still … that unshakable feeling… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it.… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
“Because of all the things I've experienced on this journey - shrinking and growing, flying sprites, living chess pieces - not a… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
“They seemed to shine together at the center of things. They made things theirs. A certain bench in the park, near the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the… — Dorothy Dunnett 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
