Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Blaise Pascal

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Paul Morphy

The hardest game to win is a won game.

Emanuel Lasker

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces.

Akiba Rubinstein

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Aron Nimzowitsch

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

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

José Raul Capablanca

When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogoljubov.

Efim Bogoljubov

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Aleksander Alekhine

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

David Bronstein

Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it.

Tigran. V. Petrosian

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Viktor Korchnoi

Chess is a beautiful mistress.

Bent Larsen

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.

Mikhail Tal

Which do I prefer? *** or chess? It depends on the position.

Boris Spassky

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves. Chess is life. I add status to any tournament I attend. I like the moment I break a man's ego.”

Bobby Fischer

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

Mark Dvoretsky

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

Anatoly Karpov

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

Garry Kasparov

When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This game is now the most important to me.

Vassily Ivanchuk

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Vishy Anand

No perfect move exists.

Veselin Topalov

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

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