The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult,… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's… — Yasser Seirawan Copy Share Image
My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Never Be Proud, For What You Are And The Position You Hold, Because After A Game Of Chess, The Kings And The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as… — Willard Fiske 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
There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal. — Irving Chernev Copy Share Image
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'. — Joseph Henry Blackburne Copy Share Image
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead — Isaac Kashdan Copy Share Image
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess. — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White — Isaac Boleslavsky Copy Share Image
A lot of people see a future where you could make a living as a chess player. — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“For chess grand masters, the process of thinking during a match can "cost" up to 7000 calories a day” — Beau Lotto Copy Share Image
