Book Quote by Bobby Fischer

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

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I…

— Magnus Carlsen

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

— Vladimir Kramnik

Chess is a great game. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes you wonder what else is out there.

— Hikaru Nakamura

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

— Magnus Carlsen

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

— Jennifer Shahade

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing…

— Maurice Ashley

I like all sorts of games that make you think. Chess is one of the games I play a lot, read a lot of…

— Ricky Rubio

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

— Bobby Fischer

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

— Emanuel Lasker