Chess Quote by Jose Raul Capablanca

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Every Chess master was once a beginner

— Irving Chernev

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it…

— Bent Larsen

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus…

— John Dickerson

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All…

— Garry Kasparov

The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in…

— Richard Reti

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

— Savielly Tartakower

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

— Anatoly Karpov

As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial…

— Andrew Soltis

Chess will always be the master of us all.

— Alexander Alekhine

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