Analysis Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

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

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...

— Emanuel Lasker

“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

Chess is the art of analysis.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus…

— John Dickerson

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 an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

— Che Guevara

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

— Kenneth Rogoff

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

— Edgar Davids

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

— Richard Reti

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

— Yasser Seirawan