The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
How well you play the game of life comes down to the sum of your choices. Whatever you decide, dont be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“The yellow-tied patzer had come for beauty, but Ljubo had come for truth. In chess, that means finding not just a good… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition.… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from… — Ryan Stiles Copy Share Image
If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
My life story is very special. I was raised with a special family as both my parents are teachers. They decided before… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions. — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand… — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow… — Frank Brady Copy Share Image
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
“Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer… — Wahida Clark Copy Share Image
“But when he was with Chess he wasn’t the bad guy no more. He was the one keeping her safe, making her… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck… — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style. — Miguel Najdorf Copy Share Image
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's… — Thon Maker Copy Share Image
