I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part. — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also… — Vladimir Kramnik 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
The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity.… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
I don't think I have a favorite chess move, other than checkmate, because each move is part of a combination of other… — GZA Copy Share Image
“The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side.… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true.… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress… — Aron Nimzowitsch 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
I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's… — Thon Maker Copy Share Image
Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game. — Byron Allen 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
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess,… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully… — Oleg Romanishin Copy Share Image
If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful,… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
