Analysis Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

Top players are privileged in the chess world.

— Anish Giri

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

— Anatoly Karpov

Chess is the art of analysis.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

— Lodewijk Prins

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

— Henri Poincare

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

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the…

— Garry Kasparov

The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are…

— Israel Albert Horowitz

Every Chess master was once a beginner

— Irving Chernev

I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players.…

— Harry Golombek

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

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

— Leonid Shamkovich