Black Quote by Bobby Fischer

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you…

— Bobby Fischer

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

— Mark Dvoretsky

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

— Garry Kasparov

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

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

— Emanuel Lasker

“In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.”

— Eve Forward

There just isn't enough televised Chess

— David Letterman

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

— Gerald Abrahams

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

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

— Diane Keaton