In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
“I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player. — Marc Lowrance Copy Share Image
I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow… — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
“Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it. — Milton Jones Copy Share Image
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere. — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
