Chess Quote by Bobby Fischer

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

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

— Leonid Shamkovich

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his…

— Albert Einstein

To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from…

— Garry Kasparov

Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.

— Martin Dansky

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

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

— Samuel Reshevsky

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first…

— Viswanathan Anand

In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop…

— Alexander Kotov

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively…

— Stanley Kubrick

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks…

— Stanley Kubrick