There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. — Grigory Sanakoev Copy Share Image
“Because of all the things I've experienced on this journey - shrinking and growing, flying sprites, living chess pieces - not a… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it.… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
“Our parting was like a stalemate…. Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost. And worse still … that unshakable feeling… — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this… — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — F.A. Hayek Copy Share Image
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
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