The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a… — Paul Morphy Copy Share Image
We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener 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
You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain what happens when jazz and punk fuse with a violin twist but it works. Probably because Anson Choi… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It's very rare that I play a game where… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane Copy Share Image
As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back… — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners,… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The purpose of history, as I see it, is to uncover the forces which move the pawns on the chess board of… — Willis A. Carto Copy Share Image
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
“Sure. Focused. Let's totally ignore any possible other avenues and just tunnel-vision our way along. Maybe we'll get lucky and blunder into… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have… — Dan Heisman Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these… — Oleg Romanishin Copy Share Image
A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without… — Gregor Piatigorsky Copy Share Image
All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in… — Henrikh Mkhitaryan Copy Share Image
Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is… — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
