“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me. — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because… — Paolo Giordano 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
Well, well. IM (and correspondence GM) Douglas Bryson once told me that he almost never plays a game that flows smoothly from… — Jonathan Rowson Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is,… — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething… — Shankarananda Copy Share Image
I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time ... — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Love is like a man playing chees always afraid of losing her queen...but the queen is always willing to sacrifice herself just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If… — Cecil Purdy Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake. — Peter Leko Copy Share Image
The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
