Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win. — Jennifer Shahade Copy Share Image
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he… — Rion Amilcar Scott Copy Share Image
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a… — Paul Morphy Copy Share Image
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm,… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
It might sound a little weird that, you know, chess streaming has a community, but really it does. — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like… — Anthony Carrigan Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions;… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
