America Quote by Garry Kasparov

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca,…

— Bobby Fischer

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

— Mig Greengard

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other…

— Liz Garbus

One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters…

— Fred Reinfeld

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

— Emanuel Lasker

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

— Boris Spassky

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

— Boris Spassky

I was born in America.

— Domantas Sabonis

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down…

— Ronald Gross

“When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It”

— Garry Kasparov

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

— Lodewijk Prins

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

— Richard Reti