The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind — Emanuel Lasker 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
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
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
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
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
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
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I… — Bobby Fischer 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
Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
“They seemed to shine together at the center of things. They made things theirs. A certain bench in the park, near the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of… — Dumitru Tepeneag 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
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of… — Garry Kasparov 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
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
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
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
Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history… — Yasser Seirawan Copy Share Image
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with… — Garry Kasparov 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
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
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player… — Vladimir Kramnik 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
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
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
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
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick 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
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething… — Shankarananda 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
I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while,… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
