Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal. — Irving Chernev Copy Share Image
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game. — Trent Alexander-Arnold Copy Share Image
Love is like a man playing chees always afraid of losing her queen...but the queen is always willing to sacrifice herself just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement… — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it,… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says,… — Humpy Koneru Copy Share Image
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
“The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — F.A. Hayek Copy Share Image
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“By contrast, he said, the Deep Blue supercomputer that beat him at chess in 1996 and 1997 was simply a very fast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
