“Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.” -Anatoly Karpov

“Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” –Rudolf Spielmann

“Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.” –Sandeep Sharma

“The most powerful weapon In Chess is to have the next move” –David Bronstein

“Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half.” –Jan Timman

“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” –Blaise Pascal

“The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.” –Savielly Tartakower

“Adequate compensation for a sacrifice is having a sound combination leading to a winning position; adequate compensation for a blunder is having your opponent snatch defeat from the jaws of victory” –Bruce A. Moon

“To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.” –Mikhail Tal

“Above all else, before playing in competitions a player must have regard to his health, for if he is suffering from ill-health he cannot hope for success. In this connection the best of all tonics is to 0 days in the fresh air, in the country.” –Mikhail Botvinnik

“As proved by evidence, [chess is] more lasting in its being and presence than all books and achievements; the only game that belongs to all people and all ages; of which none knows the divinity that bestowed it on the world, to slay boredom, to sharpen the senses, to exhilarate the spirit.” –Stefan Zweig

“The only thing chess players have in common is chess.” –Lodewijk Prins

“I have come to the. personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” –Marcel Duchamp

“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.” –Wilhelm Steinitz

“When you see a good move, look for a better one.” –Emanuel Lasker

“The Pin is mightier than the sword” –Fred Reinfeld

“Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.” –Magnus Carlsen

“The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” –Savielly Tartakover

“Self-confidence is very important. If you don’t think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.” –Magnus Carlsen

“Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events” –Benjamin Franklin

“All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess” –Bobby Fischer

“They knock me for my draws, for my style, they knock me for everything I do.” –Tigran Petrosian

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation” –Max Euwe

“Weak points or holes in the enemy position must be occupied by pieces, not pawns.” -Siegbert Tarrasch

“The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move. -David Bronstein

“The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us.” –Thomas Huxley

“I spent an hour contemplating “why am I so stupid?” thought probably I’m going to lose and go back and think about my behavior for the rest of the evening!” –Levon Aronian

“I’d rather have a pawn than a finger.” –Reuben Fine

“By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values … A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.” –Emanuel Lasker

“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.” –Bobby Fischer

“I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.” –Mikhail Tal

“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game.” -Nigel Short

“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 feel fine generally, just a little bit tired. There are still three more games and I hope can play better!” –Ding Liren

“I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. Now I attack because I know it works best.” –Garry Kasparov

“By strictly observing Botvinnik’s rule regarding the thorough analysis of one’s own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continues development of chess mastery.” –Garry Kasparov

“Every chess master was once a beginner.” –Irving Chernev

“Chess does not drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane.” –Bill Hartston

“Becoming successful at Chess allows you to discover your own personality. That’s what I want for the kids I teach.” –Saudin Robovic

“In chess, as it is played by the masters, chance is practically eliminated.” –Emanuel Lasker

“The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.” –Boris Spassky

“The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind.” –Emanuel Lasker

“It is easy to play against the young players, for me they are like an open book.” –Tigran Petrosian

“It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men.” –Savielly Tartakower

“Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative and maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.” –Savielly Tartakower

“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

“In almost any position the boundless possibilities of chess enable a new or at least a little-studied continuation to be found.” –Tigran Petrosian

“When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box.” –Irish Saying

“The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece’s activity is the Pawn structure.” –Michael Stean

“Whosoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one’s opponent, will never become a good chess player.” –Max Euwe

“Excellence at chess is one mark of a scheming mind.” –Sherlock Holmes

“I don’t believe in psychology. believe in good moves.” –Bobby Fischer

“It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.” –Aron Nimzowitsch

“I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess.” –Siegbert Tarrasch

“In some places words have been replaced by symbols which, like amulets from a witch’s bag, have the power to consume the living spirit of chess.” –Tigran Petrosian

“I don’t think he payed his best, but still he played very good.” –Praggnanandhaa

“Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.” –Hindu proverb

“When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move – or form a plan running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.” -Aron Nimzowitsch

“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

“Suit up!” -Magnus Carlsen

“I didn’t picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid – I wasn’t – but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.” –Anatoly Karpov

“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” –Bobby Fischer

“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror” –Wilhelm Steinitz

“Knights Are Tricky Bastards” –Old Wise Saying

“I don’t believe in perfection, but I believe in excellence.” –Ivan Ljubicic

“Attack! Always Attack!” –Adolf Anderssen

“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s ego. –Bobby Fischer

“It is always better to sacrifice your opponents’ men.” –Savielly Tartakower

“It is not enough to be a good player… you must also play well.” –Siegbert Tarrasch

“Tactics flow from a superior position.” –Bobby Fischer

“When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside.” –Garry Kasparov

“The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary.” –Aaron Nimzovich

“If you don’t know what to do, find your worst piece and look for a better square.” –Gerald Schwarz

“You can’t overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.” –Garry Kasparov

“There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.” –H. G. Wells

“Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self image and self esteem.” –Saudin Robovic

“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.” –Nigel Short

“Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains.” –Rick Kennedy

“All things being equal, the player will prevail who first succeeds in uniting the efforts of both rooks in an important direction.” –Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

“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.” –Anatoly Karpov

“The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it.” –Wilhelm Steinitz

“By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.” –Garry Kasparov

“Chess is the art of analysis.” –Mikhail Botvinik

“Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 0 consecutive years as number, one as I did.” –Garry Kasparov

“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

“A player, as the world believed he was, he was not, his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.” –Emanuel Lasker

“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.” –Savielly Tartakower

“I am the best I don’t have any doubt about that, but you gotta prove it when you play!” –Magnus Carlsen

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.” –Max Euwe

“Things often did not reach the endgame!” –Boris Spassky

“He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.” –Emanuel Lasker

“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

“In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.” –Emanuel Lasker

“The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.” –David Bronstein

“It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards… This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defense?” –David Bronstein

“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.” –Edmar Mednis

“If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?” –Aron Nimzowitsch

“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of Chess player’s nature” –Rudolf Spielman

“Give me a difficult positional game, I will play it. But totally won positions, I cannot stand them.” –Hein Donner

“Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty” –Dominic Lawson

“One bad move nullifies forty good ones.” –Israel Albert Horowitz

“They knock me for my draws, for my style, they knock me for everything I do.” –Tigran Petrosian

“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

“When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of ‘the only move.” –David Bronstein

“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

“There is always something more to learn. Even for a master” –Master Oogway

“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

“Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.” –Mikhail Tal

“Even the most distinguished players have in their careers experienced severe disappointments due to ignorance of the best lines or suspension of their own common sense.” –Tigran Petrosian

“If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analyzing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.” –Mikhail Botvinnik

“Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.” –Wilhelm Steinitz

“Play the opening like, a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” -Rudolf Spielmann

“A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great chess player.” –Bobby Fischer

“Who is your opponent tonight? Tonight I am playing against the Black pieces” –Akiba Rubinstein

“Tactics flow from a superior position.” –Bobby Fischer

“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” –Blaise Pascal

“I have always thought it a matter of honor for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.” –Mikhail Tal

“I … have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the ‘hunger for chess’ once more awakens within me.” –Mikhail Botvinnik

“It’s hard to be very positive after a day on which I collapsed, but I think apart from today my play has been good, at least in the knockout!” –Magnus Carlsen

“If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.” –David Bronstein

“No one ever won a game by resigning.” –Savielly Tartakower

“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

“If it is true that a player’s style is his person, then everyone plays as he is intended to by nature. I am naturally cautious, and I altogether dislike situations which involve risk.” –Tigran Petrosian

“Those who say they understand chess understand nothing.” –Robert Hubner

“Last 5, I months, I was just living my life, trying to prepare a little for the Candidates!” –Alireza Firouzja

“Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chessboard; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life – that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.” -Benjamin Franklin