My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'. — Joseph Henry Blackburne Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
There is something out there. Astrology is like a game of chess with an invisible partner. We set out the board and… — Noel Tyl Copy Share Image
“the village would never accept it. It has a policy of never accepting anything. As a happy consequence, it changes about as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even… — Sarah West Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
