Century Quote by Bobby Fischer

Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study…

— David Bronstein

The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished…

— Anatoly Karpov

Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this…

— Lodewijk Prins

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

— Vasily Smyslov

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks…

— Anatol Rapoport

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority…

— Garry Kasparov

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

— Boris Spassky

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

— Mary Ellen Clark

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

— Paul Keres

I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the…

— Anatoly Karpov

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance…

— Jim Courier

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

— Viktor Korchnoi