If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also. — Alexandra Kosteniuk Copy Share Image
I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life. — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win. — Jennifer Shahade Copy Share Image
Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win. — Demian Maia Copy Share Image
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Boxing and chess are similar. Its about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty… — Harry Golombek Copy Share Image
