“When you see a good move, look for a better one”
(Emanuel Lasker)
“The Pin is mightier than the sword”
(Fred Reinfeld)
“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature”
(Rudolf Spielman)
“All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess”
(Bobby Fischer)
“A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror”
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation”
(Max Euwe)
“I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves”
(Bobby Fischer)
“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game”
(Nigel Short)
“Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events”
(Benjamin Franklin)
“I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent”
(Bobby Fischer)
“Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists”
(Mikhail Botvinnik)
“Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack”
(Wilhelm Steinitz)
“The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake”
(Savielly Tartakover)
“Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind”
(Bobby Fischer)
“Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess”
(William Ewart Napier)
“Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move”
(Chinese proverb)
“You cannot play at Chess if you are kind-hearted”
(French Proverb)
“The Pawns are the soul of the game”
(Francois Andre Danican Philidor)
“In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame”
(Jose Raul Capablanca)
“Chess is mental torture”
(Garry Kasparov)
“Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine”
(Spielmann)