By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag 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
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. — Jennifer Shahade Copy Share Image
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its… — Northrop Frye 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
I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium. — Tony Miles Copy Share Image
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my… — Michael Birch Copy Share Image
You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch 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
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard 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
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it. — Milton Jones Copy Share Image