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“On the Chessboard, lies, and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite. ― Emanuel Lasker
“There is no one that can share your responsibility. It is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it’s up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?” ― Garry Kasparov
“When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid, you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened at a late stage of my career.” – Viswanathan Anand
“All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone’s dissatisfied with something… that’s not my headache. I hope someday I’ll become World Champion – and I’ll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn’t happen it won’t stop me getting pleasure from chess. I’m sure of that.” – Magnus Carlsen
“If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he’s worse off.” – Nigel Short
“No one will regret the time dedicated to chess, as it will help in any profession” – Tigran Petrosyan
“When you see a good move, look for a better one.” – Emanuel Lasker
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann
“If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.” – Mikhail Botvinnik
“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” – Bobby Fischer
“You must never let your opponent see your pieces and figure your strategy”
“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.”― Wilhelm Steinitz
“I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” – Marcel Duchamp
“Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, [chess] recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honor. It is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game.” – Paul Morphy
“The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chessboard.”
“Chess is the struggle against the error.” – Johannes Zukertort
“Every chess master was once a beginner.” – Irving Chernev
“Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted.” – Vladimir Putin
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.” – Ralph Charell
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” – Blaise Pascal
“I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. Now I attack because I know it works best.” – Garry Kasparov
“Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.” – Albert Einstein
“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” – Bobby Fischer
“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.” – Bobby Fischer
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann
“It is my style to take my opponent and myself on to unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an examination of the knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.” – David Bronstein
“Chess is rarely a game of ideal moves. Almost always, a player faces a series of difficult consequences whichever move he makes.” – David Shenk
“Give me a difficult positional game, I will play it. But totally won positions, I cannot stand them.” – Hein Donner
“There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.” – H. G. Wells
“Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.” – Mikhail Chigorin
“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.” – Charles Buxton
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” – Savielly Tartakower
“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.” – José Raúl Capablanca
“Pawns are the soul of the game.” – François-André Danican Philidor
“The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient.” – Aron Nimzowitsch
“Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game.” – Nigel Short
“Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf.” – Cecil Purdy
I don’t think you can really compare anyone to Fischer and I have high respect for him – he’s one of the greatest chess players who ever lived! – Wesley so
“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.” – Savielly Tartakower
“Up to this point, White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head.” – Siegbert Tarrasch
“Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.” – William Napier
“Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.” – Hans Ree
“A chess game in progress is… a cosmos unto itself, fully insulated from an infant’s cry, an erotic invitation, or war.” – David Shenk
“It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chess players, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit.” – James Mortimer
“The pin is mightier than the sword.” – Fred Reinfeld
“The only thing chess players have in common is chess.” – Lodewijk Prins
“Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing.” – Robert Hübner
“If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he’s worse off.” – Nigel Short
“Never play to win a pawn while your development is yet unfinished.”“One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both middle and end game equally well.”
“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win.” — Jose Capablanca
“I never read a [chess] book until I was already a master.” — Reuben Fine
“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.” — Savielly Tartakower
“Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf.” — Cecil Purdy
“Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting, it will help you get better results.
“Knowing which pieces you want to be exchanged is a great help in finding the right moves.” — Graham Burgess
“It doesn’t matter how strong a player you are, if you fail to register some development in the opening, then you are asking for trouble.” — John Emms
“He went out of his way to provoke the opponent to attack, and, reeking of contempt and crusader’s zeal, devoted himself to consolidating some of the most hideously unconsolidated positions ever seen on a chessboard.” — Robert Byrne on Wilhelm Steinitz
“The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with [Jose] Capablanca.” — Irving Chernev
“The peculiarity of his style is that only rarely does he make moves which no one else would make.” — Max Euwe on Vassily Smyslov
“When his opponent forces him into wild play, his performance is stunning.” — Robert Byrne on Tigran Petrosian
It’s definitely a bit disappointing to come up short in both events, but nonetheless, I’m really happy with the way I fought in both tournaments and played a lot of great games, but just a few decisions that I might like to have back.
“When having an edge, [Anatoly] Karpov often marked time and still gained the advantage! I don’t know anyone else who could do that, it’s incredible.” — Vladimir Kramnik
“Really deep opening research has been a hallmark of [Garry] Kasparov’s domination of world chess. He does not just try to find new moves, but whole new plans and strategies.” — Graham Burgess
“I don’t know exactly how many lines he’s established, but you get the impression that for the last 10 years we’ve only been using his ideas.” — Viswanathan Anand on Vladimir Kramnik
“Vishy Anand is the most versatile world chess champion. After all, he won world championships in classical matches, knockouts, rapids and blitz and dominated the advanced chess in which players are able to consult the computers.” — Lubomir Kavalek
“What I admired most about him was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.” — Magnus Carlsen
“I feel this man had to be the World Champion and nothing would stop him. It was a foregone conclusion. His career took a rather roundabout course but everything was already mapped out!” — Vladimir Kramnik
“Fischer…is abnormally sensitive to the slightest noise in the hall…Then there are other players, among them Spassky, [Viktor] Korchnoi, and myself. For us, it is simply boring to play in an empty hall. When we appear on the stage, we are artistes.” — Mikhail Tal
“Towering genius, riches, international fame and a far from normal childhood might be too heady a mix for anyone to handle. For him they proved fatal.” — Dick Cavett
“I’ll play a lot, stake matches. Not like the Russians. They win the championship and then hide for three years.” — Bobby Fischer, in 1971. Fischer, of course, did not keep his word and hid for 20 years instead of three.
“Y’all can’t be playing no checkers on no chessboard!” — The Wire, Season 1, Episode 3: “The Buys.”
“It’s a game, like Monopoly.” — Josh Waitzkin, played by Max Pomeranc, in Searching for Bobby Fischer
“When you play chess the idea is to make good moves, not quick ones!” — Jeremy Silman
“Don’t resign unless you are really sure the position is hopeless.” — John Nunn
“Take care in ‘dead drawn’ positions; it only takes a few errors for the position to be ‘dead’ rather than ‘drawn’.” — John Nunn
“Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations.” — Paul Morphy in 1859
“In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.” — Garry Kasparov
“On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.” — Emanuel Lasker
“Pawns; they are the soul of chess: it is they alone that determine the attack and the defence, and the winning or losing of the game depends entirely on their good or bad arrangement.” — François-André Danican Philidor
“I always loved complexity. With chess, one creates beautiful problems.” — Marcel Duchamp
“Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it.” — Tigran Petrosian
This year virtual congratulations will have to be enough, and each of you will celebrate or drown your sorrows as you see fit, but it’s important to have come together in this way, to be together in spirit, to be together in chess, because that has always been the greatest strength of our beloved game. It’s a community, connected across the world like a mighty chain of pawns. Chess goes back centuries, from oriental palaces to European coffee houses, and now to Zoom and Netflix. The game adapts because the players adapt, the sponsors adapt, and chess keeps growing. Its beauty is innate, eternal, even as the environment changes around it. –
I didn’t have time to calculate everything, so I was just playing my moves fast and then thinking about my opponent’s time – seems like a good idea!

Chess quotes on life
“I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player’s personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.” – Vladimir Kramnik
“The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Chess doesn’t drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane.” – Bill Hartston
“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.” – Siegbert Tarrasch
“For in the idea of chess and the development of the chess mind we have a picture of the intellectual struggle of mankind.” – Richard Réti
I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. – Marcel Duchamp
Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, [chess] recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honor. It is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game. – Paul Morphy
The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chessboard. – Simon Williams
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. – Ralph Charell
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. – Albert Einstein
In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him. – Charles Buxton
Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine. – Rudolph Spielmann
For in the idea of chess and the development of the chess mind we have a picture of the intellectual struggle of mankind. – Richard Réti
When you see a good move, look for a better one. – Emanuel Lasker
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. – Garry Kasparov
There is no remorse like the remorse of chess. – H. G. Wells
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. – Albert Einstein