Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine. — Levon Aronian Copy Share Image
Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even… — Arthur Dean Copy Share Image
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless… — Adolf Anderssen Copy Share Image
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
