Agree Quote by Alexander Alekhine

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten…

— Adolf Anderssen

He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players set out…

— Bobby Fischer

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

— William Hartston

The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

— Yuri Razuvaev

“When asked if he was better than Morphy, Steinitz, and Capablanca, Fischer responded, Well, I don’t like to put things like that in print,…

— Bobby Fischer

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

— Savielly Tartakower

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the…

— Garry Kasparov

The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as…

— Alexander Kotov

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

— Nigel Short

“had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world. That question…

— Andrew Hodges