Chess Quote by David Bronstein

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

— Bent Larsen

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.

— William Ewart Napier

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved…

— David Bronstein

In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.

— Bobby Fischer

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

— Savielly Tartakower

The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood…

— Emanuel Lasker

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and…

— Neil McDonald

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

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

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

— Samuel Reshevsky

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

— Keri Hulme