Amount Quote by Magnus Carlsen

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing…

— Maurice Ashley

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

Chess is a matter of daily training.

— Vladimir Kramnik

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

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

— Judit Polgar

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much…

— Chris Hardwick

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different…

— Kurt Maflin

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I…

— Magnus Carlsen

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of…

— John Harsanyi

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

— Bobby Fischer

“Learning often means changing the game board, not just learning fancier strategies on the same board with the same pieces.”

— David N. Perkins

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her…

— Marilyn vos Savant