Chess Quotes
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
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.
How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.
I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.
I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.
After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.
It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.
I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble
Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.
You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer
When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.