The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back… — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane Copy Share Image
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I just love fighting. You lock me in there with another guy - that strategy, that game of chess - I'm in… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners,… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
“The purpose of history, as I see it, is to uncover the forces which move the pawns on the chess board of… — Willis A. Carto Copy Share Image
Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is… — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board. — Dan Heisman Copy Share Image
“I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion. — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you. — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one… — Omar Khayyam 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
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Yuri Balashov Copy Share Image
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
