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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion — Garry Kasparov

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry. — Magnus Carlsen

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess. — Eric Bogosian

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard — Reuben Fine

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around. — William McDonough

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses — Ronald Gross

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle. — Boris Spassky

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. — Richard Reti

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. — William Ewart Napier

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white. — Zenna Henderson

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. — Efim Geller

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son. — John Turturro

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. — Richard P. Feynman

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. — Garry Kasparov

How dreadful ... to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. — Caroline Stevermer

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline — Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess is one long regret. — Stephen Leacock

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. — Boris Spassky

Chess is a cold bath for the mind — John Simon

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training. — Vladimir Kramnik

I play chess, but my past is checkered,
The mic and I are like staff and shepherd. — Ka

When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It — Garry Kasparov

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek

Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart — Kristi Maxwell

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. — Garry Kasparov

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. — Garry Kasparov

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. — Garry Kasparov

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. — Henry A. Kissinger

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that. — Lilith Saintcrow

In Kansas I have a chess school. — Anatoly Karpov

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow. — Viswanathan Anand

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam. — Bobby Fischer

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. — Marcel Duchamp

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. — Boris Gelfand

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. — William Hartston

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it. — Bobby Fischer

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. — Mikhail Botvinnik

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that. — David Bailey

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. — Henri Poincare

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine — Larry Evans

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned. — Siegbert Tarrasch

With magic almost anything was possible; all objects had energy, and energy could be manipulated. — Stacia Kane

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game. — Chuck D

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf — Cecil Purdy

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. — Howard Staunton

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it. — Mark Dvoretsky

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed. — Garry Kasparov

Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions. — Reuben Fine

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded. — George Koltanowski

A great chess player always has a very good memory. — Leonid Shamkovich

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces — Akiba Rubinstein

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. — Eduard Gufeld

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake. — Savielly Tartakower

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. — Nigel Short

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age. — Salo Flohr

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly. — Alexandra Kosteniuk

Cyber security like a game of chess, its main challenge not to win, but never surrender. — D.K.

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part. — Leonid Shamkovich

I don't simply create probabilities, I guide them. — Lionel Suggs

Every man needs a women, when his life in a trouble. just like a game of chess, queen protect the king — Anuj Kr. Thakur

Time trouble is blunder time. — Alexander Kotov

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead — Isaac Kashdan

Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer

Football is like chess, only without the dice. — Lukas Podolski

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience. — Samuel Reshevsky

Checkers is for tramps — Paul Morphy

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. — Terry Pratchett

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves — Bobby Fischer

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. — Vasily Smyslov

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer. — Garry Kasparov

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack. — Savielly Tartakower

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before. — Garry Kasparov

I played like a child. — Magnus Carlsen

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess. — Dennis Miller

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess. — Woody Allen

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time! — Alexander Kotov

If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess. — Honeya

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board. — Mark Miller

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players. — Saffron Burrows

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard — Aron Nimzowitsch

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. — Pablo Picasso

Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different. — Deyth Banger

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates. — Justine Larbalestier

No fool can play chess, and only fools do. — Marc Lowrance

All Chess players should have a hobby — Savielly Tartakower

Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together. — Pat Ament

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips

The strategist is a chess player thrown into life. — VIRGIL PROFEANU

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. — Richard Reti

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what
Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board — Mikhail Botvinnik

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence. — Frederick Lenz

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once. — David Bronstein

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens. — Mikhail Tal

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game. — Paul Morphy

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. — Samuel Reshevsky

I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4. — Anatoly Karpov

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth — Edmar Mednis