Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
I like all sorts of games that make you think. Chess is one of the games I play a lot, read a… — Ricky Rubio Copy Share Image
There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In a game of chess; the Queen protects the King. Every man needs a Good Women — Sean Taylor Copy Share Image
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will… — Aron Nimzowitsch 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
How well you play the game of life comes down to the sum of your choices. Whatever you decide, dont be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“The yellow-tied patzer had come for beauty, but Ljubo had come for truth. In chess, that means finding not just a good… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every… — Magnus Carlsen 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
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
The decision taken in haste to prove you wrong as it has proven many times that the game of chess — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized... — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. — Jacob Aagaard Copy Share Image
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online. — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
