In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
I always think when it comes to something athletic or intellectual, like chess-matchwise, I can hold my own. — Matt Mitrione Copy Share Image
I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain -… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If we are running sprints, I want to beat everybody by 10 yards. If we are playing checkers, I want to win:… — Davis Webb Copy Share Image
Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played. — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we… — Gza Copy Share Image
Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“I ain't...Don't know how to say it up right. Never--Fuck, Chess. Thought you was dead once before, you recall? Never felt so… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
“You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it,' she said." It's a game of strategy, mostly. The strong… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
