Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few — Georg Kieninger Copy Share Image
When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ... — Jan Timman Copy Share Image
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death -… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck… — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded… — Anatoly Karpov 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
The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were… — William Ewart Napier Copy Share Image
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won. — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
