The strategist is a chess player thrown into life.

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound…

— Humpy Koneru

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big…

— Vladimir Kramnik

“But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

— Magnus Carlsen

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are,…

— Lev Polugaevsky

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little…

— Alexander Alekhine

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

— Alexander Alekhine

After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make…

— Jeremy Silman

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending…

— Peter Drucker

A strategist is one who helps people relax into their creative skills. People won't rally unless an idea is beautiful... Everyone is hanging on…

— Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

— Tony Robbins

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his…

— Albert Einstein

One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you…

— Hikaru Nakamura

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

— Alison Gopnik