Boards Quote by Viktor Korchnoi

I think of myself as playing against the board, and not against my opponent.

— Daniel Naroditsky

Play against the Game, not your opponent.

— Bud Wilkinson

Chess is a time game, it’s a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.

— Priest Holmes

Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent…

— Pal Benko

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as…

— Stefan Zweig

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

— Marc Lowrance

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

— Savielly Tartakower

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

— Charles Simic

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

— Larry Evans

I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about…

— Magic Johnson

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

— Michael Jordan