Boxing is a state of mind. It's a place where you just think about what you are doing, in the moment. Fascinating,… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won. — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact… — John Nunn Copy Share Image
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating. — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
“Why people do that in case it can be predicted like the table of chess, why people are liars and hypocritical?” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Being a professional chess player is not very family-friendly and I am away quite often playing tournaments, sometimes for 12 days at… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of… — Stephanie Corneliussen Copy Share Image
“We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes “the world” is something like a great chess game being… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is,… — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
Never be too proud of who you are and what position you hold because after a game of chess the kings and… — Keren Zhims Copy Share Image
Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not:… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right… — Ralph Hasenhuttl Copy Share Image
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“It was her problem, and she'd deal with it. Because dealing with personal problems was so fucking high on her list of… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that… — Sergey Belavenets Copy Share Image
At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board. — William Ewart Napier Copy Share Image
I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world.… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
