A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. — Garry Kasparov 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
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
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed… — Anatoly Karpov 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
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
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other… — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer… — Kenneth Rogoff 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 claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning… — Israel Albert Horowitz 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
I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are. — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and… — Garry Kasparov 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
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but… — Maurice Ashley 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
I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious. — Anish Giri 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
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky 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
Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow… — Frank Brady 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
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
