Ability Quote by Aron Nimzowitsch

“As I read it I was thinking of the phenomenon of endgame. Although the concept can apply to many games, it is most common…

— Jeffery Deaver

“The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the…

— Marcus Sakey

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.…

— William Hazlitt

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental…

— Vladimir Kramnik

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when…

— Ashot Nadanian

If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases,…

— Alexander Kotov

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the…

— Alexander Kotov

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

— Reuben Fine

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

— William McDonough

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances…

— Susan Polgar