Chess Players Quotes
Chess Players Quote of the day
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening
By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
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.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.
I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.
Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.
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
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.
