In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be… — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Yuri Balashov Copy Share Image
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
“How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“Hey, Chess, I know I’ve never dated a woman, but the thought of you leaving fills me with fucking dread. Because I… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“Once the game is over,’ ” he says, “ ‘the king and the pawn go back in the same box.’ ” “In life and death… — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy . Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its… — Hans Ree Copy Share Image
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily,… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Its just a pawn ; but, in the end game, one can use a pawn with more potential and power, than a… — Gary A Shoop Copy Share Image
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
