I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and… — Hojo Soun Copy Share Image
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion. — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to… — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a… — Gary Sick Copy Share Image
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“You may not see every single piece of the puzzle that creates your life -- you may not see every move the… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board. — Dan Heisman Copy Share Image
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is… — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
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
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you. — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
There is no better training for chess than swimming. On a Friday evening I like to put in a good long session… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions,… — Garry Kasparov 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
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I met Bobby Fischer in 1993 when he moved to Europe. I have mixed feelings about it. He was an idol, but… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through… — Adrienne Shelly Copy Share Image
The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
![“But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is…” quote by Bobby Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3a/bobby-fischer-2633_capablanca_but-the-thing-that-was-great-about-capab_1971587.jpg)
