Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating. — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most… — Hans Kmoch Copy Share Image
“I ain't...Don't know how to say it up right. Never--Fuck, Chess. Thought you was dead once before, you recall? Never felt so… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love. — Larry Christiansen Copy Share Image
We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise… — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
“She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check! — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
