The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in. — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?” — Noah Boyd Copy Share Image
You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together… — Fabiano Caruana Copy Share Image
Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of… — Judit Polgar 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
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game,… — Robert Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“The world is one unending chess match, my dear, and I am the one playing it how I please. I poke and… — J.S. Bailey Copy Share Image
It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only… — Grigory Sanakoev Copy Share Image
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +- — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess. — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game,… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games,… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got. — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
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