The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social… — Dustin Diamond Copy Share Image
When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a… — Ashot Nadanian Copy Share Image
If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable. — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its… — Hans Berliner Copy Share Image
If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Online chess is very popular and cool, don't get me wrong, but it is a different discipline. — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board. — William Ewart Napier Copy Share Image
Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
