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A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. — Garry Kasparov

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. — Magnus Carlsen

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural. — Vladimir Kramnik

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. — Anne Bronte

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. — Anatoly Karpov

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. — Garry Kasparov

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. — Marcel Duchamp

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

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Chess is the only game greater than its players. — Tim Rice

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player — Bobby Fischer

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess. — Lodewijk Prins

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. — Boris Spassky

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ... — Jan Timman

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century. — Judit Polgar

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels. — Jorge Luis Borges

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. — Anatoly Karpov

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

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

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game. — Romain Edouard

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight — Jose Raul Capablanca

G. K. Chesterton says chess players go crazy, not poets. I think he is right. — Donald Miller

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. — Mikhail Botvinnik

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

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

All Chess players should have a hobby — Savielly Tartakower

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