Chess Quote by Wilhelm Steinitz

You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current…

— Viswanathan Anand

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.

— Garry Kasparov

“...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!”

— Mikhail Tal

I'm a pretty good chess player.

— Joel Kinnaman

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

In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.

— Gza

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

— Judit Polgar

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink,…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

“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

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

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might…

— Dorothy Dunnett

I cannot write about the past unless I go where history happened. Some make very good armchair historians, I'm not one of them. If…

— Bettany Hughes