Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame.… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly — Irving Chernev Copy Share Image
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get… — Irina Krush Copy Share Image
I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it. — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player. — Marc Lowrance Copy Share Image
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked'… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
