Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White — Isaac Boleslavsky Copy Share Image
A lot of people see a future where you could make a living as a chess player. — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead — Isaac Kashdan Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
“Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and Putin opponent who said, “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?” — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
“Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Boxing and chess are similar. Its about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to… — Lennox Lewis 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
