Chess Quote by Bobby Fischer

“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

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

— Bobby Fischer

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

— Lubomir Kavalek

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

— Alexander Pushkin

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain…

— Benjamin Franklin

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

— Judit Polgar

“footnotes are peculiar things, you know—like footpaths twisting through a wild and anarchic country. They split, then they split again; at any point you…

— Stephen King

“When your main game’s over, you can always move your chessboard elsewhere.”

— Margaret Atwood

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what…

— Hikaru Nakamura

There's just a lot of really great life lessons that you can take out of chess... I think that's one of my favorite parts…

— Aaron Gordon