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The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess.

— Alexander Kotov

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

— Alexander Kotov

I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

— Alexander Alekhine

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of…

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to…

— Garry Kasparov

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to…

— Samuel Reshevsky

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

— Richard Reti

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to…

— Judit Polgar

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

— Wilhelm Steinitz