Chess Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik Download Open image “Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.” — Mikhail Botvinnik ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Inspirational Learning Love Taught
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized... — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium.… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
“They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If Tal would learn to program himself properly, then it would become quite impossible to play against him. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
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