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The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

The pawn is the soul of chess.

The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.

The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain.

There are no heroes in chess.

The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

There just isn't enough televised Chess

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

The Russians have fixed world chess.

The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

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.

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.

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.

The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some sparks of the genius of masters, and in addition some rays of the glory that is the masters.

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

Time trouble is blunder time.