Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
“So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do, he… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
In chess, the elite sacrifice the pawns to save the King. In the gospel, God sacrifices the King to save the pawns. — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful,… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane. — William Hartston Copy Share Image
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I play chess with the computer when I feel dull in my mind and after two games - 'out or win', I… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's… — Alexandra Kosteniuk Copy Share Image
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match,… — Hans Kmoch 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
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It” — 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
It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop… — Richard Reti 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
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
