Chess Quote by Garry Kasparov

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

— Kenneth Rogoff

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 programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

— Levon Aronian

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to…

— Judit Polgar

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

Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the things we…

— Stuart J. Russell

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

— Mikhail Botvinnik

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides…

— Garry Kasparov

In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop…

— Alexander Kotov

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

When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who…

— Tyler Cowen

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

— Anonymous