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The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Listening to a book and in the same time playing chess is one of the best decision ever made.
— Deyth Banger
I hate anyone who beats me.
— Lisa Lane
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.
— Garry Kasparov
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
— Boris Spassky
I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.
— Humpy Koneru
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
— Charles Dudley Warner
You have good instincts,trust them. Thinking through every step is fine if you're playing chess, but this isn't chess.
— Rick Yancey
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized ...
— Emanuel Lasker
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
— Boris Spassky
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
— Richard P. Feynman
Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?
— Daniel J. King
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
— Garry Kasparov
Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
— Garry Kasparov
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men
— Savielly Tartakower
So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level out of 350.
— Deyth Banger
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
— Bobby Fischer
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
— Garry Kasparov
All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.
— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.
— David Bronstein
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
— Vladimir Kramnik
Chess is imagination.
— David Bronstein
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
— Garry Kasparov
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
— Bobby Fischer
When you play chess alone it's always your move.
— Charles Simic
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.
— Hojo Soun
Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.
— Jan Timman
In chess puzzles and tactics you see moves which in game is difficult to see mainly because of time and more often from the fast moves...
— Deyth Banger
No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
— Samuel Reshevsky
Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.
— Magnus Carlsen
Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.
— Patrick Wolff
Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White
— Isaac Boleslavsky
Robert Fischer is a law unto himself
— Larry Evans
I'm the Pawn of chess game, whose aim is not to protect the King only but to become the Conqueror.
— Samar Sudha
My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...
— Alexander Kotov
You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.
— Anatoly Karpov
Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
— Vladimir Putin
A relationship is a game of chess.
— Sophie Kinsella
In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.
— Larry Evans
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.
— Jerry Spinelli
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a
coffee cup in a park for old men playing
chess or silly games of some sort. — Charles Bukowski
coffee cup in a park for old men playing
chess or silly games of some sort. — Charles Bukowski
The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.
— Lodewijk Prins
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
— Alexander Alekhine
Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!
— Alexander Khalifman
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
— Alexander Alekhine
I often play a move I know how to refute.
— Bent Larsen
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...
— Anatoly Karpov
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
Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.
— Alexander Kotov
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature
— Rudolf Spielmann
I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
— Olivia Holt
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do
— Gerald Abrahams
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
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
— Marcel Duchamp
In chess there is a world of intellectual values,
— Gerald Abrahams
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
— Bobby Fischer
To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.
— Frederick Lenz
Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
— Bobby Fischer
I don't simply create probabilities, I guide them.
— Lionel Suggs
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
— Alexander Kotov
Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
— Yasser Seirawan
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.
— Gerald Abrahams
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
— Tom Robbins
Combination is a soul of chess.
— Alexander Alekhine
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
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
A game is always won through a mistake.
— Savielly Tartakower
[When asked how someone 6'3 had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.
— Carol Mann
I want to be an aggressive player;One who always find joy in every move.
— Kenneth De Guzman
The only good Rook is a working Rook!
— Samuel Reshevsky
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
— Robert Mundell
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
— Anatoly Karpov
Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty
— Dominic Lawson
I add status to any tournament I attend.
— Bobby Fischer
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game
— Savielly Tartakower
My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply
— Alexey Suetin