Chess Quote by Boris Spassky

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

— Rubin Carter

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly…

— Maurice Ashley

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and…

— Garry Kasparov

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate…

— Anatoly Karpov

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances…

— Susan Polgar

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

— Samuel Reshevsky

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so…

— Anatoly Karpov

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

— Anish Giri