Chess Quote by Arthur Dean

[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by bluffing. There…

— Garry Kasparov

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns.…

— Theodore Dreiser

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

— Boris Spassky

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess

— Siegbert Tarrasch

The Russians have fixed world chess.

— Bobby Fischer

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

— Garry Kasparov

“As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.”

— Adrian McKinty

Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin.

— Barack Obama

The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with…

— Leon Panetta

Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. -…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

— Barack Obama

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

— Samuel Boden