Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite. — Yuri Razuvaev Copy Share Image
Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
If we are running sprints, I want to beat everybody by 10 yards. If we are playing checkers, I want to win:… — Davis Webb Copy Share Image
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be… — Jessie Vargas Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee. — Efim Bogoljubov Copy Share Image
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess. — William Hartston Copy Share Image
I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away. — Paul Morphy Copy Share Image
Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we… — Gza Copy Share Image
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. — William Hartston Copy Share Image
As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way,… — James Mortimer Copy Share Image
... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of… — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
