Analysis Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

— 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

Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are,…

— Lev Polugaevsky

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

— Marcel Duchamp

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