Analysis Quote by Lev Polugaevsky

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

— Boris Spassky

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

— Stanley Ellin

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

Chess is the art of analysis.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

— Bobby Fischer

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

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

Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted…

— Hans Kmoch

“Grandmasters play chess by combining experience with intuition, backed up with calculation and study. Computers play chess by brute calculation; their “study” consists of…

— Garry Kasparov

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

— Alexander Alekhine

Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the…

— Garry Kasparov