We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record. — Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami Copy Share Image
“We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?” — Noah Boyd Copy Share Image
“the village would never accept it. It has a policy of never accepting anything. As a happy consequence, it changes about as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you… — Chris Eubank Jr Copy Share Image
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the… — Igor Aleksander Copy Share Image
The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this… — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to play chess, but to me, life is like a game of chess.” — Thierry Guetta Copy Share Image
Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not:… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as… — Willard Fiske Copy Share Image
Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
