Assignments Quote by Anatoly Karpov

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

— Vasily Smyslov

... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...

— Alexander Kotov

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical…

— Garry Kasparov

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides…

— Garry Kasparov

I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and…

— Mark Spitz

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.

— Garry Kasparov

Botvinnik was a killer in chess.

— Yuri Averbakh

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

— Alexander Alekhine

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

— Magnus Carlsen

Absolutely everything I've done - my research, my training, my book - was made possible due to Harvard opening doors and providing me with…

— Fiona Hill

“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other readers had…

— Clive Thompson