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
“So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do, he… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained… — Lodewijk Prins Copy Share Image
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a… — Gary Sick Copy Share Image
But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to… — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without… — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
“How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“You may not see every single piece of the puzzle that creates your life -- you may not see every move the… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day, from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because,… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then,… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
My life is split in three parts; I don't know the percentage. One could be called "chess" - the Kasparov Chess Foundation,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
![“But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is…” quote by Bobby Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3a/bobby-fischer-2633_capablanca_but-the-thing-that-was-great-about-capab_1971587.jpg)
