The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique)… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces — Akiba Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“I do not know how old I was when I learned to play chess. I could not have been older than eight,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement… — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
