Advantage Quote by Garry Kasparov

Chess is the art of analysis.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium.…

— Peter Abelard

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...

— Emanuel Lasker

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

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

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

The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics -…

— Viswanathan Anand

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess…

— Mikhail Tal

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to…

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

— Che Guevara

Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

— Mark Dvoretsky