Advantage Quote by Leo Tolstoy

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

— Savielly Tartakower

In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks that you…

— Hikaru Nakamura

“Except in a very few matches, usually with world-class performers, there is a point in every match (and in some cases it's right at…

— C. Terry Warner

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

— Alice Cooper

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the…

— Viktor Korchnoi

Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly,…

— Garry Kasparov

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom…

— Emanuel Lasker

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.…

— William Hazlitt

No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

— Phil Jackson

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

— James M. Loy

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

— Max Euwe