In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite. — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win. — Demian Maia Copy Share Image
Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
No one ever won a chess match by making only forward moves. Just like in life, sometimes we have to move backward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted.… — Adolf Anderssen Copy Share Image
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood… — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer -… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
![“It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is telling me the story as he's sitting in that witness chair, and they're putting the final touches of makeup on. And he goes, "Hold on a second," to stop his story…” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0ad/judd-nelson-4498_actors_it-s-like-they-talk-about-how-american-a_470630.jpg)
