Appendix Quote by Vasily Smyslov

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

— Magnus Carlsen

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

— Lubomir Kavalek

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I…

— Magnus Carlsen

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other readers had…

— Clive Thompson

Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer. The idea…

— Jennifer Shahade

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

— Yuri Razuvaev

Every Chess master was once a beginner

— Irving Chernev

My sister Susan, who was the first one, was pretty good in mathematics and then chess, and my father chose chess because it was…

— Judit Polgar

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

— Bobby Fischer

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the…

— Alexander Kotov

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

— William Hartston