Chess Quote by Vasily Smyslov

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot…

— Norman Mailer

I think every player has their own style, so I just try to see things I can improve on.

— Matthijs de Ligt

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

There are those who discredit a style or a way of playing and those who accept all the different styles.

— Diego Simeone

Great players are very good technically, but they also have a huge amount of character because, without it, you will never get to see…

— Javier Mascherano

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's difficult to change, shall I say, a technically great player into a physical, aggressive player.

— Ralf Rangnick

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

I think skill-position players are better when they're artistically inclined.

— Jason Kelce

The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances…

— Daniel Goleman

A master is a master play of disguise

— Anonymous

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All…

— Garry Kasparov