Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion. — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board. — Dan Heisman Copy Share Image
“I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of… — Michael Stean Copy Share Image
I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that,… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of… — Paul Morphy Copy Share Image
Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in… — Reggie Rivers Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by… — Mihail Marin Copy Share Image
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise… — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you. — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death -… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
There is no better training for chess than swimming. On a Friday evening I like to put in a good long session… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through… — Adrienne Shelly Copy Share Image
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
I met Bobby Fischer in 1993 when he moved to Europe. I have mixed feelings about it. He was an idol, but… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Yuri Balashov Copy Share Image
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be… — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
