Many have become chess masters - no one has become the…

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves? Even when…

— Mark Cuban

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

— George Koltanowski

The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll…

— Pat Robertson

“The psychology of accurate intuition involves no magic. Perhaps the best short statement of it is by the great Herbert Simon, who studied chess…

— Daniel Kahneman

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it…

— Bent Larsen

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

— Alexander Alekhine

The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in…

— Richard Reti

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All…

— Garry Kasparov

Why are most chess masters under 30?

— Mark Zuckerberg

Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted…

— Hans Kmoch

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus…

— John Dickerson

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

— Israel Albert Horowitz

Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to…

— Alexander Kotov

A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost…

— Siegbert Tarrasch