Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one ever won a chess match by making only forward moves. Just like in life, sometimes we have to move backward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted.… — Adolf Anderssen Copy Share Image
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood… — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
So chess is kind of this nice thing that I have no real aspiration for. It's just a frivolous thing I can… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm… — Mark Taimanov Copy Share Image
If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish… — Michael Basman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm,… — Alexander Kotov 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
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
“Grandmasters play chess by combining experience with intuition, backed up with calculation and study. Computers play chess by brute calculation; their “study”… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Never be proud of the position you hold. When the game of chess is over, the kings and soldiers go into the… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
“In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they… — Roumen Bezergianov Copy Share Image
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ... — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations… — Kurt Maflin Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of chess. Undesirable events try to knock you down by trying to place you into checkmate. You… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict. — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these… — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ... — Jan Timman Copy Share Image
