Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

— Emanuel Lasker

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

— Simen Agdestein

It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked…

— Garry Kasparov

“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,…

— Laura Lippman

The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but…

— Dave Rubin

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

— Alexander Alekhine

“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up…

— Russell Blake

[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great…

— Eve Babitz

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

— Gerald Abrahams

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

— Magnus Carlsen

Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine

— Mikhail Tal

My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always…

— Viswanathan Anand

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that…

— Brian Kiley

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

— Wilhelm Steinitz