What was great about Fischer is that when he became world champion is that chess was being covered everywhere. It was in… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
So chess is kind of this nice thing that I have no real aspiration for. It's just a frivolous thing I can… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
My computer just beat me at chess...but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Author Name Copy Share Image
There are two ways to have educational chess in schools, either through after school programs or using chess as a tool in… — Judit Polgar 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
I like all sorts of games that make you think. Chess is one of the games I play a lot, read a… — Ricky Rubio Copy Share Image
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to… — Jan Hein Donner Copy Share Image
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural. — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
“They seemed to shine together at the center of things. They made things theirs. A certain bench in the park, near the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work… — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ... — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying… — Bobby Fischer 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
You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image