Boards Quote by Henry Bird

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

— Howard Staunton

Be the chess player not the chess pieces.

— Akila Sultana

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

— William Hartston

Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your…

— Magnus Carlsen

In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.

— Gza

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

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

The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as…

— Alexander Kotov

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

— Judit Polgar

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the…

— Alexander Kotov