Alekhine Quote by Bobby Fischer

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

Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess…

— Mikhail Tal

Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among…

— Emanuel Lasker

I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16…

— Magnus Carlsen

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy…

— Garry Kasparov

... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and…

— Kenneth Rogoff

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess…

— John Nunn

The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are…

— Israel Albert Horowitz

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down…

— Ronald Gross

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to…

— Boris Spassky

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the…

— Garry Kasparov

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being…

— George Steiner