To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game. — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of… — William Ewart Napier Copy Share Image
The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's… — Yasser Seirawan Copy Share Image
If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to… — Bobby Fischer 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
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity.… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
“I want to be an aggressive player;One who always find joy in every move.” — Kenneth de Guzman Copy Share Image
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later.… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
