Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even… — Sarah West Copy Share Image
What the devil possessed me to reply 1. ... e5?? I compltely forgot that Spassky, like Spielmann in the past, very much… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
There is something out there. Astrology is like a game of chess with an invisible partner. We set out the board and… — Noel Tyl Copy Share Image
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
“the village would never accept it. It has a policy of never accepting anything. As a happy consequence, it changes about as… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and Putin opponent who said, “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later.… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things… — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
Love is like a man playing chees always afraid of losing her queen...but the queen is always willing to sacrifice herself just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game. — Trent Alexander-Arnold Copy Share Image
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement… — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says,… — Humpy Koneru Copy Share Image
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it,… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
From the moment of my birth on 23 July 1976, I became involved f in an educational research project. Even before I… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
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