Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a… — Paul Morphy Copy Share Image
We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into… — Neil McDonald Copy Share Image
Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he… — Jeremy Silman Copy Share Image
“Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure she had a… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Its just a pawn ; but, in the end game, one can use a pawn with more potential and power, than a… — Gary A Shoop Copy Share Image
I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily,… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its… — Hans Ree Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy . Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
“Sure. Focused. Let's totally ignore any possible other avenues and just tunnel-vision our way along. Maybe we'll get lucky and blunder into… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have… — Dan Heisman Copy Share Image
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these… — Oleg Romanishin Copy Share Image
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without… — Gregor Piatigorsky Copy Share Image
The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in… — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It's very rare that I play a game where… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
