Chess Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some…

— Vladimir Kramnik

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

Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among…

— Emanuel Lasker

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

— Alexander Alekhine

“Well, it’s roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When I was 15, I became the youngest grandmaster in the world, breaking the record set by Bobby Fischer more than three decades earlier.

— Judit Polgar

Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has…

— Daniel Levitin

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the…

— Garry Kasparov

“If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

— Simen Agdestein

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening…

— Garry Kasparov

“10,000 hour” rule. The rule’s premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it…

— Sean Patrick