You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on… — Alexander Kotov 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
While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White — Isaac Boleslavsky Copy Share Image
According to such great attacking players as Bronstein and Tal, most combinations are inspired by the player's memories of earlier games. — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is… — Emanuel Lasker 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
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world — Pierre Mac Orlan Copy Share Image
When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov. — Efim Bogoljubov Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one. — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in… — Rubin Carter Copy Share Image
It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
