Bird Quote by William Ewart Napier

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his…

— Albert Einstein

“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

— Vasily Smyslov

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

— Stanley Ellin

“Mr. Guppy suspects everybody…of entertaining... Sinister designs upon him…he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot;…

— Charles Dickens

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

— Savielly Tartakower

“When it comes to danger,” he’d say, “everybody’s chicken. But there are two kinds of chickens—chicken hawks and chicken shits. And it doesn’t matter…

— S.G. Redling

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American…

— Frank Brady

“But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

“Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability…

— Bono

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the other guy’s…

— Kim Stanley Robinson