Chess Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort.…

— Dorothea Lange

Your body is your machine - you need your fuel.

— Cassie Scerbo

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily…

— James Gleick

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly,…

— Garry Kasparov

I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a…

— Shankarananda

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

— Kay Kay Menon

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group.…

— Bobby Fischer

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

— Siegbert Tarrasch