I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics. — Tim Rice Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it. — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
From the moment of my birth on 23 July 1976, I became involved f in an educational research project. Even before I… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
...chess is "a lot like football because you have to set up your offense and your defense, every once in a while… — Priest Holmes Copy Share Image
Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and… — Barney Chavous Copy Share Image
“Alienor glanced across at the girls who were still oblivious of their fate as they sat over their game of chess. They… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
“If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.” — Zenna Henderson Copy Share Image
There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot. — James M. Loy Copy Share Image
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon. — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified — Jeremy Silman Copy Share Image
Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings. — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth — Yasser Seirawan Copy Share Image
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost. — Yuri Razuvaev Copy Share Image
