Important Quote by Daniel Naroditsky

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are…

— Garry Kasparov

Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly,…

— Garry Kasparov

Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision…

— Alexander Kotov

Leaders make the best decision only at the front position, but also the right change to beat competition if they are accorded the top…

— Anuj Somany

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough…

— David Bronstein

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening…

— Garry Kasparov

“Grandmasters play chess by combining experience with intuition, backed up with calculation and study. Computers play chess by brute calculation; their “study” consists of…

— Garry Kasparov

The point is to win the biggest tournaments and beat the biggest guys head to head. Then, if the computer ranking works out that…

— Mats Wilander

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer…

— Choi Hong Hi

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often…

— Efim Geller

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude…

— Alexander Kotov

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid…

— Anatoly Karpov