Chess Quote by Alexei Shirov

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

— Leonid Shamkovich

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns…

— Terry Pratchett

“Over the years, they had destroyed all of him, removing hands, arms, and legs and leaving him with substitutes as delicate and useless as…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Savielly Tartakower

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

— Solomon Burke

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

— Stanley Ellin

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known…

— Anatoly Karpov

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said…

— Bobby Fischer

“It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.”

— Barry Lyga

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws…

— Pal Benko