Allowing Quote by Joshua Waitzkin

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

— Judit Polgar

My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport,…

— Judit Polgar

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might…

— Dorothy Dunnett

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game.…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do…

— Viswanathan Anand

Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small…

— Carmen Kass

I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and…

— Garry Kasparov

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

— Vasily Smyslov

There's just a lot of really great life lessons that you can take out of chess... I think that's one of my favorite parts…

— Aaron Gordon

In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that…

— Brian Kiley

My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became…

— Vasily Smyslov

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position,…

— Jaylen Brown